Material properties of evolutionary diverse spider silks described by variation in a single structural parameter

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Madurga, Rodrigo ^a   Plaza, Gustavo R ^a   Blackledge, Todd A ^b   Guinea, Gustavo V ^a   Elices, Manuel ^a   Pérez Rigueiro, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILK;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ELASTIC MODULUS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILK; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84954480763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18991     Document Type: Article

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