With great structure comes great functionality: Understanding and emulating spider silk
The overarching aim of biomimetic approaches to materials synthesis is to mimic simultaneously the structure and function of a natural material, in such a way that these functional properties can be systematically tailored and optimized. In the case of synthetic spider silk fibers, to date functiona...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2014
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