Thursday, May 08, 2014

Hydrogen bonding-assisted thermal conduction in [small beta]-sheet crystals of spider silk protein




Nanoscale , 2014, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01195C, Communication

Lin Zhang, Teli Chen, Heng Ban, Ling Liu

Using atomistic simulations, we demonstrate that [small beta]-sheet, an essential component of spider silk protein, has a thermal conductivity 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than that of some other protein structures reported in the literature.

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