Water in Crystalline Fibers of Dihydrate β-Chitin Results in Unexpected Absence of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding

• Daisuke Sawada ,

  * E-mail: utkspecial@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshiharu Nishiyama,

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV-CNRS), BP 53, F-38041Grenoble, France

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• Paul Langan,

  Affiliation Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

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• V. Trevor Forsyth,

  Affiliations Partnership for Structural Biology, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, EPSAM/ISTM, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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• Satoshi Kimura,

  Affiliations Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-ku, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

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• Masahisa Wada

  Affiliations Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-ku, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

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