Polymer fibers: silk and synthetic polymers: reconciling 100 degrees of separation (adv. Mater. 1/2012).
The image shows a sketch of a Chinese silkworm spinning a silk fiber. Using shear-induced polarization light imaging, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk and co-workers at Sheffield and Oxford Universities demonstrate on page 105 that the work required to produce natural silk fibers is at least ten times less th...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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