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Nanomechanics of collagen microfibrils [PDF]
Muscle Ligaments and Tendons Journal, 2013 Collagen constitutes one third of the human proteome, providing mechanical stability, elasticity and strength to organisms and is thus the prime construction material in biology. Collagen is also the dominating material in the extracellular matrix where its stiffness controls cell differentiation, growth and pathology.
VESENTINI, SIMONE +2 more
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Corneal stroma microfibrils [PDF]
Experimental Eye Research, 2015 Elastic tissue was first described well over a hundred years ago and has since been identified in nearly every part of the body. In this review, we examine elastic tissue in the corneal stroma with some mention of other ocular structures which have been more thoroughly described in the past.
Hanlon, Samuel D. +3 more
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Processing of Polymer Nanocomposites Reinforced with Polysaccharide Nanocrystals
Molecules, 2010 Aqueous suspensions of polysaccharide (cellulose, chitin or starch) nanocrystals can be prepared by acid hydrolysis of biomass. The main problem with their practical use is related to the homogeneous dispersion of these nanoparticles within a polymeric ...
Alain Dufresne
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THE SIZE OF THE CELLULOSE MICROFIBRIL [PDF]
The Journal of Cell Biology, 1963 Recently the lateral width of the cellulose microfibril has been estimated as 30 A rather than about 150 to 200 A, by extrapolation of data from model shadowing experiments. The difference was attributed to a layer of metal deposited during shadowing.
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Direct Measurement of Plant Cellulose Microfibril and Bundles in Native Cell Walls
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Plants use rigid cellulose together with non-cellulosic matrix polymers to build cell walls. Cellulose microfibrils comprise linear β(1,4)-glucan chains packed through inter- and intra-chain hydrogen-bonding networks and van der Waals forces.
Bo Song +9 more
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Proteolysis of fibrillin-2 microfibrils is essential for normal skeletal development
eLife, 2022 The embryonic extracellular matrix (ECM) undergoes transition to mature ECM as development progresses, yet few mechanisms ensuring ECM proteostasis during this period are known.
Timothy J Mead +10 more
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Fibrillin microfibrils in bone physiology [PDF]
Matrix Biology, 2016 The severe skeletal abnormalities associated with Marfan syndrome (MFS) and congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) underscore the notion that fibrillin assemblies (microfibrils and elastic fibers) play a critical role in bone formation and function in spite of representing a low abundance component of skeletal matrices.
Silvia, Smaldone, Francesco, Ramirez
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Preferred crystallographic orientation of cellulose in plant primary cell walls
Nature Communications, 2020 Cellulose is synthesized as microfibrils of β-1,4-linked glucan chains arranged in a crystalline lattice. Here Ye et al. use grazing incidence wide angle X-ray scattering to show that cellulose crystals are preferentially orientated parallel to the plant
Dan Ye +14 more
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Cellulose nanocrystals-microfibrils biocomposite with improved membrane performance
Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, 2023 This study investigates eco-friendly membrane biocomposites derived from biomass, utilizing cellulose microfibrils (CMF) as the main membrane material. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), isolated from rice husk, were added as reinforcing fillers in CMF flat ...
Moch Saifur Rijal +3 more
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Structural changes in sugarcane bagasse cellulose caused by enzymatic hydrolysis
Journal of Wood Science, 2020 Cellulose I is not completely saccharified to glucose at a low cellulase concentration. In this study, sugarcane cellulose saccharification residues were investigated.
Makiko Imai +4 more
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