Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites
Natural silk fibres are tough, but they lack required strength and stiffness as a reinforcement for polymer matrix composites. Here, the authors hybridise silks produced by a wild caterpillar A. pernyi with high-performance carbon fibres to produce tough, strong and impact resistant composites.
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| author | Kang Yang Juan Guan Keiji Numata Change Wu Sujun Wu Zhengzhong Shao Robert O. Ritchie |
| author_facet | Kang Yang Juan Guan Keiji Numata Change Wu Sujun Wu Zhengzhong Shao Robert O. Ritchie |
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| description | Natural silk fibres are tough, but they lack required strength and stiffness as a reinforcement for polymer matrix composites. Here, the authors hybridise silks produced by a wild caterpillar A. pernyi with high-performance carbon fibres to produce tough, strong and impact resistant composites. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a5bea2314b74d39be4c05234123ca702022-12-21T22:54:39ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232019-08-0110111210.1038/s41467-019-11520-2Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural compositesKang Yang0Juan Guan1Keiji Numata2Change Wu3Sujun Wu4Zhengzhong Shao5Robert O. Ritchie6International Research Center for Advanced Structural and Biomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang UniversityInternational Research Center for Advanced Structural and Biomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang UniversityBiomacromolecules Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceInternational Research Center for Advanced Structural and Biomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang UniversityInternational Research Center for Advanced Structural and Biomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang UniversityState Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan UniversityMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of CaliforniaNatural silk fibres are tough, but they lack required strength and stiffness as a reinforcement for polymer matrix composites. Here, the authors hybridise silks produced by a wild caterpillar A. pernyi with high-performance carbon fibres to produce tough, strong and impact resistant composites.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11520-2 |
| spellingShingle | Kang Yang Juan Guan Keiji Numata Change Wu Sujun Wu Zhengzhong Shao Robert O. Ritchie Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites Nature Communications |
| title | Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites |
| title_full | Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites |
| title_fullStr | Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites |
| title_short | Integrating tough Antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact-critical structural composites |
| title_sort | integrating tough antheraea pernyi silk and strong carbon fibres for impact critical structural composites |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11520-2 |
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