Unraveled mechanism in silk engineering: Fast reeling induced silk toughening

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Xiang ^a   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a,b   Du, Ning ^a   Xu, Gangqin ^a   Li, Baowen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXTERNAL STRESS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS; SPIDER SILKS; STRESS-STRAIN; STRUCTURAL FACTOR; TEXTILE APPLICATIONS;

SILK; STRESSES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 69949170427     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3216804     Document Type: Article

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