Architecture of lipid-protein nanoglobules in velvet worm prey capture slime

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Fiber fabrication in animals is an important inspiration source for polymeric materials. Velvet worm prey capture slime represents a unique way of fiber fabrication by using monodisperse lipid-protein nanoglobules as storage units, which reversibly self-assemble after mechanical impact into stiff polymeric fibers. The primary component of the tensile fiber are proteins. With the planned experiment we aim at the characterisation by small-angle neutron scattering of the internal architecture of the nanoglobules and of their reorganization into fibers and back.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.94114220
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/94114220
Provenance
Creator Dr Emanuel Schneck; Professor Matthew Harrington; Mr Alexander Baer; Dr Najet Mahmoudi; Mr Giuseppe Rosario Del Sorbo
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-06-28T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-07-01T07:49:16Z