Ubiquitous distribution of salts and proteins in spider glue enhances spider silk adhesion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Amarpuri, Gaurav ^a   Chaurasia, Vishal ^a   Jain, Dharamdeep ^a   Blackledge, Todd A ^b   Dhinojwala, Ali ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; INORGANIC SALT; PROTEIN; SILK;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; SPIDER;

ADHESIVES; ANIMALS; PROTEINS; SALTS; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 84924897998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09030     Document Type: Article

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