Measurement of Elastic Modulus of Collagen Type I Single Fiber

Pavel Dutov; Olga Antipova; Sameer Varma; Joseph P. R. O. Orgel; Jay D. Schieber

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145711

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Measurement of Elastic Modulus of Collagen Type I Single Fiber

Pavel Dutov,

Affiliations Center For Molecular Study Of Condensed Soft Matter, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Olga Antipova,

Affiliations Center For Molecular Study Of Condensed Soft Matter, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Departments of, Biology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, BioCAT, Sector 18, APS/Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL, United States of America
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Sameer Varma,

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America
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Joseph P. R. O. Orgel,

Affiliations Center For Molecular Study Of Condensed Soft Matter, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Departments of, Biology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, BioCAT, Sector 18, APS/Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL, United States of America
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Jay D. Schieber

* E-mail: schieber@iit.edu

Affiliations Center For Molecular Study Of Condensed Soft Matter, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Measurement of Elastic Modulus of Collagen Type I Single Fiber

Pavel Dutov,
Olga Antipova,
Sameer Varma,
Joseph P. R. O. Orgel,
Jay D. Schieber

Published: January 22, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145711

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