Paper: Brown Recluse Spider’s Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Stiff Extensible Silk
| Authors from our Lab: Sean R. Koebley and Hannes C. Schniepp Published: Oct. 8, 2013 |
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In collaboration with Fritz Vollrath from the University of Oxford, our team has revealed that fibers of recluse spider silk have highly unusual structure and properties. On the one hand, this provides a key to unraveling the secrets of the molecular structure of silk. On the other hand, this will most likely lead to novel medical and engineering applications for silks.
See our Press Release: Recluse Spider’s Thin and Strong Silk Ribbons.
Our paper has been published in the journal Advanced Materials (2015 impact factor 19.0).
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| H. C. Schniepp, S. R. Koebley, F. Vollrath “Brown recluse spider's nanometer scale ribbons of stiff extensible silk”, Advanced Materials 25, 7028–7032 (2013) |
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| Contact: | schniepp@wm.edu |
| DOI: | 10.1002/adma.201302740 |
| Publisher's Web Page: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201302740 |
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