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Jungho Jin1, Pegah Hassanzadeh, Giovanni Perotto
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98103, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|June 22, 2013
Abstract:
A chitin nanofiber-silk biomimetic nanocomposite with enhanced mechanical properties is self-assembled from solution to yield ultrafine chitin nanofibers embedded in a silk matrix.

