Using birefringence as a tool to investigate biomechanical properties of an elastic biopolymer protein
Egg capsules from Busycon canaliculatum were examined to determine the microscopic mechanical properties. Previous macroscopic studies of this whelk’s egg capsules had determined that the protein polymer of these egg capsule cases have an interesting two-phase stress/strain curve and that this mate...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11173 |