Structural origin of the strain-hardening of spider silk

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 772-778

  Du, Ning ^a,b   Yang, Zhen ^a   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a   Li, Yang ^c   Xu, Hong Yao ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

sheets; mechanical properties; silk; strain hardening

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUFFERING; FIBER EXTENSION; HARDENING BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CHAINS; MOLECULAR NETWORKS; MOLECULAR ORIGINS; PROTEIN BACKBONE; SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK; SPIDER DRAGLINES; SPIDER SILKS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL ORIGIN; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; HARDENING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RUBBER; STRAIN; SYNTHETIC FIBERS; SYNTHETIC RUBBER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

SILK;

ABSORPTION; ELASTOMERS; HARDENING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NATURAL FIBERS; OSCILLATION; RUBBER; SILK; STRAINS; SYNTHETIC FIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79951600899     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201001397     Document Type: Article

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