Abstract: Together with the globular proteins, microtubules and microfilaments, intermediate filaments are one of the three major components of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells. They consist of a dimeric coiled-coil building ...

Abstract: We report atomistic studies of single-wall carbon nanotubes with very large aspect ratios subject to compressive loading. These long tubes display significantly different mechanical behavior than ...

Abstract: Porous silica structures with intricate design patterns form the exoskeleton of diatoms, a large class of microscopic mineralized algae, whose structural features have been observed to exist down to nanoscale dimensions. ...

Abstract: Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) constitute a prominent example of nanomaterials. In most studies on mechanical properties, the effort was concentrated on CNTs with relatively small aspect ratio of length ...