Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6828, 2001, Pages 541-548

  Vollrath, Fritz ^a,b   Knight, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GENES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TEMPERATURE;

INDUSTRIAL FIBRE PROCESSING; SPUN;

SILK;

PROTEIN;

ARTHROPOD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SILK; SPIDER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RHEOLOGY; SPIDERS; TEXTILES;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

GENETIC MODIFICATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PROTEIN; SPIDER SILK; SPINNING;

EID: 0035967162     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35069000     Document Type: Review

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