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.
Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of Ministry of Education, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China.
Chengjie
C
Fu
Zhengzhong
Z
Shao
Vollrath
V
Fritz
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