Unexpected β-sheets and molecular orientation in flagelliform spider silk as revealed by Raman spectromicroscopy

Soft Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6350-6357

  Lefèvre, Thierry ^a   Pézolet, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARANEUS DIADEMATUS; ARGIOPE AURANTIA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MOLECULAR BASIS; NATIVE STATE; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; POLARIZED SPECTRA; PRIMARY STRUCTURES; RAMAN DATA; SILK FIBER; SPECTROMICROSCOPY; SPIDER SILK FIBERS; SPIDER SILKS; STRUCTURAL DATA; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SILK;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTATION; FIBERS; ORIENTATION; SILK; SPINNING;

ARANEAE; ARANEUS DIADEMATUS; ARGIOPE AURANTIA; NEPHILA CLAVIPES;

EID: 84864516454     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm25351h     Document Type: Article

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