For centuries, Bombyx mori silkworm silk fibroin has been used as a high-end textile fiber.
Beyond textiles, silk fibroin has also been used as a surgical suture material for decades …

All spiders produce protein-based biopolymer fibres that we call silk. The most studied of
these silks is spider dragline silk, which is very tough and relatively abundant compared with …

Natural polymers, based on proteins or polysaccharides, have attracted increasing interest
in recent years due to their broad potential uses in biomedicine. The chemical stability …

Spider silk has outstanding mechanical properties despite being spun at close to ambient
temperatures and pressures using water as the solvent. The spider achieves this feat of …

The design principles of spider dragline silk, nature's high-performance fiber, are still largely
unknown, in particular for the noncrystalline glycine-rich domains, which form the bulk of the …

Biomaterials, having evolved over millions of years, often exceed man‑made materials in
their properties. Spider silk is one outstanding fibrous biomaterial which consists almost …

Taking advantage of recent advances in polarized Raman microspectroscopy, and based on
a rational decomposition of the amide I band, the conformation and orientation of proteins …

Spider silk has been noted for its extraordinary properties since ancient times. In many
cultures there are stories based on the use of spider silk. Over the past 150 years numerous …

Synchrotron FTIR (S-FTIR) microspectroscopy was used to monitor the silk protein
conformation in a range of single natural silk fibers (domestic and wild silkworm and spider …

The past 15 years have seen a major increase in our understanding of the structure and
dynamics of Bombyx mori silk fibroin, largely as a result of NMR studies. We now have a …