Interfibrillar stiffening of echinoderm mutable collagenous tissue demonstrated at the nanoscale.
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 587
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1073/pnas.1609341113
- Title of journal
- Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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- First page
- E6362
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 42
- ISSN
- 1091-6490
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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7
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This demonstration of the biophysical underpinnings of mechanical mutability in echinoderms was selected for a Research Highlight by a leading European synchrotron (ESRF), a feature article in BioScience (academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/3/201/2962463), media coverage on a major Chinese popular-science website (http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2016/10/357956.shtm) and a perspective article (The Biochemist). It led to an international interdisciplinary collaboration between Elphick/Gupta (QMUL) and Candia/Sugi (Milan) to explore origins of mutability in related tissues (cnidarians) and two invited book chapters (RSC) on biomedical soft matter. As the primary output of Dr. Mo’s PhD, it enabled her to secure a postdoctoral position in 3D X-ray imaging on soft and bio-matter.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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