Glassy state of native collagen fibril?
Gevorkian, S. G.; Allahverdyan, A. E.; Gevorgyan, D. S.; Hu, C.-K.; Gevorkian, S. G.; Yerevan Physics Institute - Alikhanian Brothers Street 2, Yerevan 375036, Armenia; Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica - Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Allahverdyan, A. E.; Yerevan Physics Institute - Alikhanian Brothers Street 2, Yerevan 375036, Armenia; Gevorgyan, D. S.; Yerevan State Medical University - Koryun Street 2, Yerevan 375025, Armenia; Hu, C.-K.; Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica - Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Журнал:
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Дата:
2011-07-01
Аннотация:
Our micromechanical experiments show that viscoelastic features of type-I collagen fibril at physiological temperatures display essential dependence on the frequency and speed of heating. For temperatures of 20–30 <sup>°</sup>C the internal friction has a sharp maximum for a frequency less than 2 kHz. Upon heating the internal friction displays a peak at a temperature T<sub>soft</sub>(v) that essentially depends on the speed of heating v: T<sub>soft</sub>≈70<sup>°</sup>C for v=1<sup>°</sup>C/min, and T<sub>soft</sub>≈25<sup>°</sup>C for v=0.1<sup>°</sup>C/min. At the same temperature T<sub>soft</sub>(v) Young's modulus passes through a minimum. All these effects are specific for the native state of the fibril and disappear after heat-denaturation. Taken together with the known facts that the fibril is axially ordered as quasicrystal, but disordered laterally, we interpret our findings as indications of a glassy state, where T<sub>soft</sub> is the softening transition.
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