Collagen: powerful workout with water
Collagen fibres not only passively support bone, tendons and ligaments, but also actively contract
28-Jan-2015 -
The bodies of humans and animals owe their strength especially to a fibrous structural protein called collagen. Collagen is abundant in bones, tendons, ligaments and skin. Water, a substance that is not often associated with strength, was found out to be an intrinsic component of collagen, as ...
collagen
fibrils
Raman spectroscopy
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