TY - GEN
T1 - Study of nano-mechanics of collagen I triple-helices by computerized processing of AFM images
AU - Bitler, Arkady
AU - Perugia, Emanuel
AU - Cohen, Sidney R.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We used atomic force microscope (AFM) to acquire high-resolution images of collagen type I triple-helices under ambient conditions in tapping mode. Angles between consecutive fixed-length segments were measured and analyzed to yield persistence length and elastic constant. Changing the segment length allowed exploring the mechanics at various scales. Understanding the mechanical properties of collagen molecules could serve to elucidate mechanisms of complex mechanical properties of interest in nanomedicine and nanotechnology.
AB - We used atomic force microscope (AFM) to acquire high-resolution images of collagen type I triple-helices under ambient conditions in tapping mode. Angles between consecutive fixed-length segments were measured and analyzed to yield persistence length and elastic constant. Changing the segment length allowed exploring the mechanics at various scales. Understanding the mechanical properties of collagen molecules could serve to elucidate mechanisms of complex mechanical properties of interest in nanomedicine and nanotechnology.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879390885&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1557/opl.2012.107
DO - 10.1557/opl.2012.107
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AN - SCOPUS:84879390885
SN - 9781627482332
T3 - Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
SP - 7
EP - 12
BT - Functional Imaging of Materials-Advances in Multifrequency and Multispectral
T2 - 2011 MRS Fall Meeting
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 2 December 2011
ER -