ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 544
Silk Polymers
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Materials Science and Biotechnology
David Kaplan, EDITOR Natick Research, Development, and Engineering Center, U.S. Army
W. Wade Adams, EDITOR Materials Directorate, Wright Laboratory, U.S. Air Force
Barry Farmer, EDITOR University of Virginia
Christopher Viney, EDITOR University of Washington
Developed from the Workshop on Silks: Biology, Structure, Properties, Genetics sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, January 28-29, 1993
American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 1994 In Silk Polymers; Kaplan, D., et al.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1993.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Workshop on Silks: Biology, Structure, Properties, Genetics (1993: Charlottesville, Va.) Silk polymers: materials science and biotechnology / David Kaplan . . . [et al.].
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"Developed from the Workshop on Silks: Biology, Structure, Properties, Genetics, sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, January 28-29, 1993." Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8412-2743-8 1. Silk—Congresses. 2. Polymers—Congresses. 3. Molecular biology—Congresses. 4. Polymeric composites—Congresses. I. Kaplan, David, 1953-
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1993 Advisory Board ACS Symposium Series M. Joan Comstock, Series Editor
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V. Dean Adams University of Nevada— Reno Robert J. Alaimo Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mark Arnold University of Iowa David Baker University of Tennessee Arindam Bose Pfizer Central Research Robert F. Brady, Jr. Naval Research Laboratory Margaret A. Cavanaugh National Science Foundation Dennis W. Hess Lehigh University
Bonnie Lawlor Institute for Scientific Information Douglas R. Lloyd The University of Texas at Austin Robert McGorrin Kraft General Foods Julius J. Menn Plant Sciences Institute, U.S. Department of Agriculture Vincent Pecoraro University of Michigan Marshall Phillips Delmont Laboratories George W. Roberts North Carolina State University A. Truman Schwartz Macalaster College
Hiroshi Ito IBM Almaden Research Center
John R. Shapley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Madeleine M. Joullie University of Pennsylvania
L. Somasundaram DuPont
Gretchen S. Kohl Dow-Corning Corporation
Peter Willett University of Sheffield (England)
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