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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Main Authors: Brown, C, Whaite, A, MacLeod, J, Macdonald, J, Rosei, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014