Thursday, April 02, 2015

Mechanical properties of amyloid-like fibrils defined by secondary structures




Nanoscale , 2015, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C4NR05109B, Paper

C. Bortolini, N. C. Jones, S. V. Hoffmann, C. Wang, F. Besenbacher, M. Dong

Mechanical properties of amyloid-like fibrils are influenced by the secondary structure: for instance, a higher amount of ordered [small beta]-sheets contributes to enhance the rigidity while the presence of [small alpha]-helices appears to soften the nanostructure reducing the young's modulus.

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