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Strength in numbers

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Self-assembly of proteins commonly associated with neurodegenerative diseases can be exploited to make well-ordered and strong functional macroscopic materials.

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Figure 1: Combining universal building blocks creates well-ordered biological nanomaterials with superior properties.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Markus J. Buehler is at the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, and the Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. mbuehler@MIT.EDU,

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Buehler, M. Strength in numbers. Nature Nanotech 5, 172–174 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.28

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