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Genetically-Tunable Mechanical Properties of Bacterial Functional Amyloid Nanofibers.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids - 2 May 2017
Abdelwahab M Tarek, Kalyoncu Ebuzer, Onur Tugce, Baykara Mehmet Z, Seker Urartu Ozgur Safak
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Bacterial biofilms are highly ordered, complex, dynamic material systems including cells, carbohydrates, and proteins. They are known to be resistant against chemical, physical, and biological disturbances. These superior properties make them promising candidates for next generation biomaterials. Here we investigated the morphological and mechanical properties (in terms of Young's modulus) of...
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