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Scientific American

January 1, 1995

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Elastic Biomolecular Machines

Synthetic chains of amino acids, patterned after those in connective tissue, can transform heat and chemical energy into motion

By Dan W. Urry

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 272 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Elastic Biomolecular Machines” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 272 No. 1 (), p. 64
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0195-64
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