Protein-Based Materials

by David Kaplan, Kevin McGrath, Kevin P. McGrath

Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties. Spider webs, egg whites, hair follicles, and skeletal muscles are all largely protein. This book provides a glimpse into both nature's strategies for the design and produc- tion of protein-based materials, and how scientists have been able to go beyond the constraints of natural materials to produce synthetic analogs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817638482
• ISBN13: 9780817638481
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"