Elastomeric Proteins: Structures, Biomechanical Properties, and Biological Roles

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Elastic proteins occur in a wide range of biological systems where they have evolved to fulfill precise biological roles. The best known include proteins in vertebrate muscles and connective tissues, such as titin, elastin, fibrillin and spider silks. Interest in elastomeric proteins is currently high for several reasons. Firstly, they have biological and medical significance, particularly in human disease. Secondly, the unusual properties of proteins such as spider silks provide opportunities to develop novel materials. Thirdly, the development of scanning probe microscopy makes it possible to study structures and biomechanical properties of these proteins at the single molecule level.

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Elastic proteins occur in a wide range of biological systems where they have evolved to fulfill precise biological roles. The best known include proteins in vertebrate muscles and connective tissues, such as titin, elastin and fibrillin, and spider silks. However, other examples include byssus and abductin from bivalve molluscs, resilin from arthropods and gluten from wheat. Interest in elastomeric proteins is currently high for several reasons. Firstly, their biological and medical significance, particularly in human disease. Secondly, the unusual properties of proteins such as spider silks provide opportunities to develop novel materials. Thirdly, the development of scanning probe microscopy makes it possible to study structures and biomechanical properties of these proteins at the single molecule level. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers from a broad range of disciplines, working on any aspect of elastic proteins.

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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3701 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Silica/titania binary inorganic component was synthesized by a nonhydrolytic sol-gel method. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results indicated that titania was stabilized by silica because of the formation of a connecting structure, which would greatly restrain the high aggregation tendency of titania nanoparticles. The thermal stabilities of the PMMA/silica/titania ternary nanocomposites were measured by thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA). Although the solvent extraction results confirmed that there were no covalent bond interactions between polymer and inorganic phases, the trace amount of stabilized titania improved the thermal and thermo-oxidative stabilities of PMMA because titania/silica nanoparticles may have ability to trap the free radicals generated in the degradation of PMMA. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 47:302-307, 2007. [c] 2007 Society of Plastics Engineers

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Title: Effect of traces of inorganic content on thermal stability of poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites.
Author: Haitao Wang
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 47 Issue: 3 Page: 302(6)

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Physical and Microstructural Effects of Heat Setting in Polyester Films.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Physical and Microstructural Effects of Heat Setting in Polyester Films.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
J. Greener , A. H. Tsou , and T. N. Blanton
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 7130 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Physical and Microstructural Effects of Heat Setting in Polyester Films.
Author: J. Greener
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 39 Issue: 12 Page: 2403

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Stability of blends of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers with thermoplastic polymers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Stability of blends of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers with thermoplastic polymers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
A.G.C. Machiels , J. Van Dam , A. Posthuma De Boer , and B. Norder
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 7638 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Breakup of fibers of a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (TLCP) above the melting temperature in various ordinary polymers has been studied by capillary instability experiments on single TLCP fibers and by annealing experiments on extruded TLCP/thermoplast blends. The TLCP was an aromatic copolyester, Vectra A900, the matrix polymers were PP, PS, PC, PEI, PES, and PEBT. Both types of experiments show that the fiber/matrix morphology is, in general, highly unstable in the molten state. The TLCP fibers break up into droplets by a combination of Rayleigh distortions, end-pinching and retraction, depending on the system and shape of the fiber. Fibers of a thickness of [similar to]1 [[micro]meter] can break up in a few seconds. Breakup times of fibrous blends and individual fibers are in agreement provided size effects are accounted for. Rayleigh distortions develop exponentially in time up to relative distortions of 0.5 to 0.6. Breakup occurs within a range of wave numbers rather than at one distinct dominant wave number, which is shown to be the consequence of relatively large initial distortions. Apparent values for the interfacial tensions calculated with Tomotika's theory turned out to be of the correct order of magnitude, ranging from 7 mN/m for Vectra/PES to 24 mN/m for Vectra/PP and to yield correct values of the interfacial tensions of PP/PS, PP/PC, and PS/PC using Antonow's rule.

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Title: Stability of blends of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers with thermoplastic polymers.
Author: A.G.C. Machiels
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v37 Issue: n9 Page: p1512(14)

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Studies on the Phase Transition and Thermal Stability of Xydar and Zenite Series Liquid Crystalline Polymers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Studies on the Phase Transition and Thermal Stability of Xydar and Zenite Series Liquid Crystalline Polymers.: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
Tai-shung Chung , and Xing Jin
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 7241 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Studies on the Phase Transition and Thermal Stability of Xydar and Zenite Series Liquid Crystalline Polymers.
Author: Tai-shung Chung
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Page: 841

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Thermal stability of a novel poly(ether ether ketone ketone)(PK99).: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Thermal stability of a novel poly(ether ether ketone ketone)(PK99).: An article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
L. Abate , S. Calanna , A. Pollicino , and A. Recca
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on July 15, 1996. The length of the article is 3152 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The degradation of PK99 was studied by heating the polymer in both isothermal and dynamic conditions under nitrogen flow and in a static air atmosphere. In both environments this polymer's thermal stability exceeded that of PEEK. The dynamic experiments showed that in both nitrogen and air atmospheres the polymer degraded in two stages with formation of the same residue, which was quite stable under nitrogen, while almost completely burned in air. Good agreement was observed with the isothermal experiments. Apparent activation energy values were evaluated. The double linear relationships obtained by the Kissinger equation suggested a complex degradation process.

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Title: Thermal stability of a novel poly(ether ether ketone ketone)(PK99).
Author: L. Abate
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: July 15, 1996
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v36 Issue: n13 Page: p1782(7)

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Thermal stability of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-butyl acrylate) and poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate) polymers.(5th International Conference on Polymer ... from: Polymer Engineering and Science

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Thermal stability of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-butyl acrylate) and poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate) polymers.(5th International Conference on Polymer ... from: Polymer Engineering and Science
Mirela Leskovac , Vera Kovacevic , Dragutin Fles , and Drago Hace
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2212 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Thermal stability of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-butyl acrylate) and poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate) modified with a small amount of acrylic acid and/or N-methylolacrylamide as a crosslinking agent was studied in this work. Programmed thermogravimetric analysis has been used to study the effect of copolymer composition on thermal stability, over a temperature range from 50 to 450 [degrees] C, under a constant flow of nitrogen. Kinetic parameters of thermal degradation, activation energy, pre-exponential factor, and reaction order were obtained by using MacCallum-Tanner's approach. Kinetic data indicate that the thermal degradation of the investigated copolymer systems is the first order reaction, and that the increase of activation energy may be an indication of thermal stability changes in copolymer systems.

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Title: Thermal stability of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-butyl acrylate) and poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate) polymers.(5th International Conference on Polymer Characterization)
Author: Mirela Leskovac
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 39 Issue: 3 Page: 600(9)

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3F condensation polyimides review and update (SuDoc NAS 1.26:102353)

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3F condensation polyimides review and update (SuDoc NAS 1.26:102353)
William B. Alston
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Computers you notice. They sit on your desk and hum, ever smaller, ever faster, and always obsolete if bought longer ago than last week. But the equally impressive technology that turns millions of terminals into a global network is less obvious. The phone line that comes into your house probably still pushes electrons through metal. But not far away, the signal will join millions of others relayed down fiber optic cables by laser. Jeff Hecht's fascinating account of this undersung technology goes back 150 years to find the origins of fiber optics. Then he chronicles the many ingenious and determined engineers who fashioned it into a technology that festoons the globe with cables carrying pulses of photons. It was harder than pioneering copper links because supplanting an existing technology needs more persuasion than establishing the first one. And there was competition from the satellite industry, as well as unexpected setbacks, such as sharks who ignored copper but chewed fiber optic cables. Hecht tells a good tale, combining a light journalistic touch with a scholarly knowledge of the industry he has covered for over two decades. The story is not over yet, but this is a rich account of how we got this far in a technology that really has fueled a revolution. --Jon Turney, Amazon.co.uk

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City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the book is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology. The basic concept underlying fiber optics was first explored in the 1840s when researchers used jets of water to guide light in laboratory demonstrations. The idea caught the public eye decades later when it was used to create stunning illuminated fountains at many of the great Victorian exhibitions. The modern version of fiber optics--using flexible glass fibers to transmit light--was discovered independently five times through the first half of the century, and one of its first key applications was the endoscope, which for the first time allowed physicians to look inside the body without surgery. Endoscopes became practical in 1956 when a college undergraduate discovered how to make solid glass fibers with a glass cladding. With the invention of the laser, researchers grew interested in optical communications. While Bell Labs and others tried to send laser beams through the atmosphere or hollow light pipes, a small group at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories looked at guiding light by transparent fibers. Led by Charles K. Kao, they proposed the idea of fiber-optic communications and demonstrated that contrary to what many researchers thought glass could be made clear enough to transmit light over great distances. Following these ideas, Corning Glass Works developed the first low-loss glass fibers in 1970. From this point fiber-optic communications developed rapidly. The first experimental phone links were tested on live telephone traffic in 1977 and within half a dozen years long-distance companies were laying fiber cables for their national backbone systems. In 1988, the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable connected Europe with North America, and now fiber optics are the key element in global communications. The story continues today as fiber optics spread through the communication grid that connects homes and offices, creating huge information pipelines and replacing copper wires. The book concludes with a look at some of the exciting potential developments of this technology.

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Comprehensive explanation of the story of Fober Optics.......2005-01-20

It's great book for those who interests in where it came from. Especailly I would like to note the style of narration as an example of a deep insight into the issue of development and early research works. Unfortunately, the story is ended in the begining of the 90th and whole decade is omitted. It would be better if the story of photonic components development was included but it's a matter of next edition of this book.
As conclusion, I recommend this book to read for everybody who is involved into the field of Fiber Optics.

Comprehensive History of Fiber Optics.......2001-05-31

Fiber optics, the backbone of local and international communications and of the Internet, seems like a new technology, but in this comprehensive history of the field Jeff Hecht describes the Victorian origins of light guiding via jets of water. In the first half of the 20th century a number of researchers independently discovered flexible glass fibers, and with the introduction of the laser in the 1950s long-distance optical communication became a possibility. The main section of the book focuses on the work of researchers in Britain, Japan, and the United States from the 1950s through the 1980s as they overcome many technical problems and develop the beginnings of modern fiber optic cables, documenting the failures, the dead-ends, and the ultimate success in the early 1980s. Extensively researched and annotated, with much material from primary sources, City of Light is accessible to the non-technical reader, yet has enough detail and links to additional sources to satisfy students of engineering history.

Good explanation of "where it all came from".......2000-08-30

Hecht does a good job of explaining where the technology of fiber optics communications came from. His book is not an explanation of how fiber optics communications works, but a history. I have a reasonably good background in fiber optics communications so it's difficult for me to judge whether someone who knew nothing about it would find it easy to follow, although I think they would.

I would particularly recommend the book to fiber optic techies - it really makes the technology more meaningful when you understand how the technology developed. A fine job by a good writer - very close to five stars.

And if you're technically oriented and want more knowledge of fiber optic technology, I'd recommend "Optical Networks" by Ramaswami and Sivarajan.

weak on the last 10 years.......1999-08-15

This is book has a wealth of information on the early years of fibre optics that I have not seen anywhere else. It is full of names and brief explanations of their contribution. But overall I thought this was a dull, slow moving book with little insight. More of an ongoing collection of notes that have been put together for another better book on the history of fibre once the real story finally emerges. There is very little science here. You won't learn much about light physics or why the technology works -only that it does and who patented it. (But the science may be reserved for Hecht's other book.) Also , for those who are trying to keep up with Gilder this book will be disappointing. There is nothing on DWDM (one brief, unexplained mention) or nothing that maps out the current players, companies, or technologies. (I can tell that Gilder has read it because some of the historical facts have been mentioned in the GTR) But there are only a few pages at the end that try to update where the technology has been in the last 10 years, where it is going or why. Huge gaps where a technology is mentioned but not even defined, much less explained. I wish there was a better book on the subject, but for now this is it, and maybe it is worth reading for that reason alone. Sorry to be so critical, but if you like Burke's "Connections" this will only get you lost. It probably would not have been published but for the sudden surge in tech stocks. I hope the Slone series is not all like this.

Excellent book!.......1999-06-28

The author has an easy narrative style, even though clarity is obstructed by poetic wax in a few places.

I am amazed out how much information about fiber optics I have absorbed without study.

If you like techie stuff, you'll love this book. If you like Dilbert, you'll love this book.

Read it!

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The Untold Story.(Review): An article from: American Scientist

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City Of Light The Story of Fiber Optics
Jeff Hecht
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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ASIN: B000OKAQXC

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, just like today, many people were terrified--or thrilled--by the seemingly unstoppable progress of science, wrestling with questions of sexual identity, and turning away from traditional religions or taking refuge in spiritualism, the paranormal, and "new age" philosophies. This selection of more than 120 writings from the four decades around 1900 brings together newspaper clippings, poetry, pulp fiction, scientific polemic, and sexological speculation, alongside classic texts by Conan Doyle, Stevenson, Wells, Dickens, Ibsen, Ruskin, and Zola. Vividly illuminating both the similarities and the differences between millennial and fin-de-siecle anxieties, this dazzling anthology forces us to look again at the progress we have made (or failed to make) in the last hundred years.

"A splendid starting-point for analysis of fin-de-siecle thought and for understanding the millennium"-- Elaine Showalter

The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900

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The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900

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In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siecle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.

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One of the best Fin de Siecle anthologies around.......2001-02-19

Fin de siecle is one of those fascinating topics in literary and cultural studies. However, it is, just like postmodernism, a very hard concept to precise. Ledger and Luckhurst help to solve this problem thanks to a complete selection of texts that represent 13 cultural phenomena of the time. Probably the text would require some accompanying texts if the reader is not familiar with the topic, but it offers to the more especialized reader a very complete reference to those texts that are fundamental to understand the time but do not appear on the literary canons. A must for anyone interested in the end of the nineteenth century.

Reading Fin De Siecle Fictions (Longman Critical Readers)

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Reading Fin De Siecle Fictions (Longman Critical Readers)

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Two on the Fin de Siecle.(The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, 1880-1900; Fins de Siecle / New Beginnings)(Book Review): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

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Two on the Fin de Siecle.(The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, 1880-1900; Fins de Siecle / New Beginnings)(Book Review): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
G.A. Cevasco
Manufacturer: ELT Press
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This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by ELT Press on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 910 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Two on the Fin de Siecle.(The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History, 1880-1900; Fins de Siecle / New Beginnings)(Book Review)
Author: G.A. Cevasco
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: ELT Press
Volume: 46 Issue: 1 Page: 85(3)

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1900: A Fin-De-Siecle Reader
Mike Jay
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