Physicochemical Property Variation in Spider Silk: Ecology, Evolution, and Synthetic Production

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2017, Pages 443-460

  Blamires, Sean J ^a,b   Blackledge, Todd A ^c   Tso, I Min ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterial; Chemical properties; Hierarchical structure; MaSp model; Molecular arrangement; Physical properties; Spinning processes; Supercontraction; Tensile properties

Indexed keywords

SILK;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 85011309220     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-035615     Document Type: Review

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