The unique combination of great stiffness, strength, and extensibility makes spider major
ampullate (MA) silk desirable for various biomimetic and synthetic applications. Intensive …

Dragline silk of golden orb-weaver spiders (Nephilinae) is noted for its unsurpassed
toughness, combining extraordinary extensibility and tensile strength, suggesting industrial …

Silk from silkworms and spiders is an exceptionally important natural material, inspiring a
range of new products and applications due to its high strength, elasticity, and toughness at …

Coreless filament winding is an emerging fabrication technology in the field of building
construction with the potential to significantly decrease construction material consumption …

Biologically derived and biologically inspired fibers with outstanding mechanical properties
have found attractive technical applications across diverse fields. Despite recent advances …

The book contains comprehensive contributions on extracellular composite matrices in
arthropods. The building blocks of such matrices are formed in and secreted by single …

Spider dragline silk fibers are important in nature for capturing prey and as a lifeline.
However, spider silk is exposed to a range of humidity and deformation conditions, and it is …

The extraordinary comprehensive mechanical properties of animal silk (especially spider
and silkworm silk) have led to extensive research on the underlying mechanisms involved …

The Bombyx mori silkworm is well known as it has been bred by our ancestors with mulberry
tree leaves for thousands of years. However, Bombyx mori is not the only silkworm that can …

The evolutionary diversification of orb-web weaving spiders is closely tied to the mechanical
performance of dragline silk. This proteinaceous fiber provides the primary structural …