The Elastic Properties of Chemically Modified Wools and Their Implications for Theories of Wool Structure

1 September 1957

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Textile Research Journal

Vol. 27 (9), 690-695
https://doi.org/10.1177/004051755702700902

Abstract

The changes in elastic properties produced by systematic changes of the number and kind of sulfur bonds are interpreted as implying the existence in the wool fiber of units joined longitudinally by disulfide bonds. Some possible implications of this concept are discussed.

Keywords

ELASTIC PROPERTIES
WOOLS
WOOL FIBER
DISULFIDE BONDS
WOOL STRUCTURE
SULFUR BONDS
UNITS JOINED
JOINED LONGITUDINALLY
CHEMICALLY MODIFIED

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

The Macromolecular Structure of Keratin Fibres
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1951

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