What makes spider silk fibers so strong? from molecular-crystallite network to hierarchical network structures

Soft Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2116-2123

  Xu, Gangqin ^b   Gong, Li ^b   Yang, Zhen ^a,b   Liu, X Y ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CRACKS; CRYSTALLITES; FIBERS; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOFIBERS;

HIERARCHICAL NETWORK; HIERARCHICAL NETWORK STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR NETWORKS; PROPAGATION OF CRACKS; SILKWORM SILK FIBERS; SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK; SPIDER SILK FIBERS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

SILK;

ANIMALS; CRACKS; FIBERS; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SILK;

EID: 84896742917     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52845f     Document Type: Article

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