Molecular mechanics of mineralized collagen fibrils in bone
Bone is a natural composite of collagen protein and the mineral hydroxyapatite. The structure of bone is known to be important to its load-bearing characteristics, but relatively little is known about this structure or the mechanism that govern deformation at the molecular scale. Here we perform ful...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Pub. Group
2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3644085/ |