Many natural fibers are lightweight and display remarkable strength and toughness. These
properties originate from the fibers' hierarchical structures, assembled from the molecular to …

The tiny spider makes dragline silk fibers with unbeatable toughness, all under the most
innocuous conditions. Scientists have persistently tried to emulate its natural silk spinning …

Silks are remarkable materials with desirable mechanical properties, yet the fine details of
natural production remain elusive and subsequently inaccessible to biomimetic strategies …

Solution blow spinning (SBS) has emerged as a rapid and scalable technique for the
production of polymeric and ceramic materials into micro-/nanofibers. Here, SBS was …

Whilst much is known about the properties of silks, the means by which native silk
feedstocks are spun still represent a gap in our knowledge. Rheology of the native silk …

Silk fibroin is stored in the silk glands of Bombyx mori silkworms as a condensed aqueous
solution called liquid silk. It is converted into silk fibers at the silkworm's spinnerets under …

Recently, considerable attention has been paid to silks by a range of scientists from textile
engineers to polymer chemists and biomedical researchers. The application of native silk …

Microfluidic chips with single channel were built to mimic the shear and elongation
conditions in the spinning apparatus of spider and silkworm. Silk fibers dry-spun from …

In this study, we prepared regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) aqueous solution to approach the
environmental condition in the gland of silkworm, Bombyx mori. Then electrospinning …

Spiders and silkworms employ the complex flow of highly concentrated silk solution as part
of silk fiber spinning. To understand the role of fluidic forces in this process, the flow of silk …