Showing papers by "Pijush Ghosh published in 2006"
TL;DR: In this article, a combination of experimental (photoacoustic FTIR, XRD) and computational (molecular dynamics (MD)) techniques was used to evaluate molecular interactions in organically modified clay and polymer clay nanocomposite.
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TL;DR: Comparative study of the stress-deformation characteristics of these two structures with almost similar number of amino acids have been extracted from one single spinach protein: Ferredoxin Reductase (1FNR).
Abstract: Proteins in biological nanocomposites play an important role in their mechanical response. Proteins in nacre, the inner layer of seashells, have been shown to have exceptional mechanical properties. One of the important nacre proteins, Lustrin-A, has abundance of polypeptides in zig-zag conformation called β-sheets. β-sheets of protein when present close to each other in multiple numbers could take the shape of a planar β-sheath like structure or a β-barrel to form a domain. In natural proteins both these types of structures are commonly found. However, the conformation of β-sheets in Lustrin-A is not known at this time. Effort has been made through this work to study the mechanical response of these β-planar sheath and β-barrel structures when subjected to external loads. Comparative study of the stress-deformation characteristics of these two types of structures has been made. Both these structures with almost similar number of amino acids have been extracted from one single spinach protein: Ferredoxin ...
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