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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQH603.C96 _bN48 1993
082	0	0	_a574.4/7 _220
100	1		_aNeville, Anthony C. _q(Anthony Charles), _d1937- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBiology of fibrous composites : _bdevelopment beyond the cell membrane / _cA.C. Neville.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1993.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 214 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aDefining the subject -- Occurrence of fibrous composites -- Properties of natural plywoods -- Biomimicry: making liquid crystalline models of helicoids and other plywoods -- How is fibre orientation controlled? -- Unifying themes.
520			_aThis book, by a leading thinker with 30 years experience in the field, is the first devoted to fibrous composites in biology. It tackles a major unsolved problem in developmental biology - how does chemistry create architecture outside cells? Fibrous composites occur in all skeletal systems including plant cell walls, insect cuticles, moth eggshells, bone and cornea. They function like man-made fibreglass, with fibres set in a matrix. The fibrous molecules are long, extracellular and water-insoluble and to be effective they must be orientated strategically. The underlying hypothesis of this book is that the fibres are orientated by self-assembly just outside the cells during a mobile liquid crystalline phase prior to stabilization. The commonest orientations of the fibres are plywood laminates (orthogonal and helicoidal), and as parallel fibres. These may be imitated in vitro by liquid crystalline chemicals. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach and will be relevant to biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, material scientists and to liquid crystals chemists.
650		0	_aCytoskeleton _xFormation.
650		0	_aFibrous composites.
650		0	_aDevelopmental biology.
650		0	_aCytoskeletal proteins.
650		0	_aGlycoproteins.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521410519
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511601101
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