Micromechanical bending of single collag
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Lanti Yang; Kees O. van der Werf; Bart F.J.M. Koopman; Vinod Subramaniam; Martin
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A new micromechanical technique was developed to study the mechanical properties of single collagen fibrils. Single collagen fibrils, the basic components of the collagen fiber, have a characteristic highly organized structure. Fibrils were isolated from collagenous materials and their