Employing Rheo-SANS to understand how silk is spun

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Combining structural information about silk proteins in solution whilst undergoing mechanical shear will open a new window into silk production in vivo and provide valuable insight into silk's structure property relations. Previous X-ray and NMR investigations have placed silk rheology as secondary to structure, and yet processing conditions are just as important in determining the final fibre properties. In addition said studies used a silk analogue that is now being shown to be entirely inappropriate. Combining the results from a previous ISIS Rheo-SANS study (RB820440) we aim to investigate further using SANS2d and concurrently develop a Bio-Rheo-Scattering platform at the Rutherford. This will not only be a technical achievement in itself, but studying natural silk protein aggregation kinetics will undoubtedly increase our understanding of this interesting and important material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089319
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089319
Provenance
Creator Dr Ann Terry; Mr Maxime Boulet-Audet; Professor Fritz Vollrath; Dr Christopher Holland; Dr Imke Greving
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-10-22T09:53:47Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-24T12:53:53Z