Toughening of artificial silk by incorporation of carbon nanotubes.

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Published in Biomacromolecules on December 01, 2007

Authors

David Blond1, Denis N McCarthy, Werner J Blau, Jonathan N Coleman

Author Affiliations

1: School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

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