Animal silks: their structures, properties and artificial production.
This feature article reviews recent progress in the understanding of the hierarchically organized structures, the perfectly balanced mechanical properties and the structure-property relationship of the natural animal silk fibres, as well as the experimental attempts to fabricate man-made silk fibres by means of wet spinning, dry spinning, electrospinning and transgenosis.
Fu
Chengjie
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Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of Ministry of Education, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China.
Shao
Zhengzhong
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Fritz
Vollrath
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D047011:Silk; D013696:Temperature
D019476:Insect Proteins; D047011:Silk