Publications [#348240] of Christoph F. Schmidt

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  1. Klug, WS; Bruinsma, RF; Michel, J-P; Knobler, CM; Ivanovska, IL; Schmidt, CF; Wuite, GJL, Failure of viral shells., Physical review letters, vol. 97 no. 22 (December, 2006), pp. 228101 [doi] .
    (last updated on 2025/07/03)

    Abstract:
    We report a combined theoretical and experimental study of the structural failure of viral shells under mechanical stress. We find that discontinuities in the force-indentation curve associated with failure should appear when the so-called Föppl-von Kármán (FvK) number exceeds a critical value. A nanoindentation study of a viral shell subject to a soft-mode instability, where the stiffness of the shell decreases with increasing pH, confirms the predicted onset of failure as a function of the FvK number.