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Can sodium silicates affect collagen structure during tanning? Insights from small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies

Yi Zhang, Bridget Ingham, Jérôme Leveneur, Soshan Cheong, Yin Yao, David James Clarke, Geoff Holmes, John Vedamuthu Kennedy, Sujay Prabakar

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Sodium silicates can pseudo-stabilize collagen molecules during leather processing by preventing collagen molecules from undergoing conformational changes due to the silica coating on the fibrils.

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Sodium silicates can pseudo-stabilize collagen molecules during leather processing by preventing collagen molecules from undergoing conformational changes due to the silica coating on the fibrils.

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Sodium silicates can pseudo-stabilize collagen molecules during leather processing by preventing collagen molecules from undergoing conformational changes due to the silica coating on the fibrils.

Key concepts: Small-angle X-ray scattering, Molecule, Coating, Sodium, Chemistry, Collagen fibril, Fibril, Crystallography

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