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. 2007 Aug 31;93(12):4425–4432. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.106.099309

FIGURE 9.

FIGURE 9

(a) Wide angle x-ray diffraction pattern recorded from a single N. madagascariensis fiber at ID13/ESRF. The fiber axis is along the horizontal direction. The pattern can be indexed to an orthorhombic lattice, with the (120) reflection occurring as the strongest peak. A longitudinal cut through the (120) reflection can be analyzed to compute the lateral crystallite width from the Debye-Scherrer formula; see the wide stripe. (b) The resulting values for the crystallite width as a function of strain show a pronounced decrease.