Spider silk: Webs measure up

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 185-187

  Qin, Zhao ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SILK; STIFFNESS; WEB CRAWLER;

ADVANCED MATERIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELASTIC RESPONSE; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NATURAL MATERIALS; STIFFNESS TENSOR; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH; VIBRATION SIGNAL;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84875452406     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3578     Document Type: Article

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