Collagen and Gelatin in the Solid State

Abstract

Current physicochemical knowledge on the structure of collagen is based almost exclusively on dilute solution measurements or on results from x-ray diffraction studies and electron microscopy of native and reconstituted collagen fibers and fibrils. A comprehensive treatise of this subject has recently appeared [1]; this treatise demonstrates the depth of structural understanding that has been achieved by use of a methodology based largely on the state of infinite dilution, on one hand, and on condensed states of very high order, on the other.