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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Today. 2012 Nov 17;7(6):488–495. doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2012.09.001

Figure 2. Summary of experimental and computational studies.

Figure 2

(original data from [14, 15]). The integration of experimental work (bioinspired microfluidic technology) with multiscale modeling (coarse-grained model of silk protein) allows one to directly simulate the complex shear-flow driven assembly process, and to gain fundamental insight into the assembly process of bioinspired silk proteins into fibers (panel (a)). Panel (b) shows experimental and computational results from two different protein sequences. The HAB3 sequence forms fibers, whereas the HA3B sequence doesn’t, which could be explained by the computational model [15].