Flaw-tolerance in silk fibrils explains strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silk
Silk is an exceptionally strong, extensible, and tough material made from simple protein building blocks. The molecular structure of dragline spider silk repeat units consists of semiamorphous and nanocrystalline β-sheet protein domains. Here we show by a series of computational experiments how the...
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American Chemical Society
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109141 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-9199 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659 |