Silk, especially spider and insect silk, is a highly versatile biomaterial with potential
applications in biomedicine, materials science, and biomimetic engineering. The primary …

Due to their outstanding mechanical properties, their biocompatibility and biodegradability
spider silk fibers are of high interest for researchers. Silk fibers mainly comprise proteins …

Spider silks are an intriguing family of fibrous proteins due to their highly repetitive primary
sequence, their solution properties and their assembly and processing into fibers with …

Silk is a well-known and unique material that has been used in different applications for
more than 5,000 years. The shiny silk fabrics that we know are actually made of threads …

Highlights•Silks are green polymers, which can be produced in a sustainable fashion and
which show high-performance properties.•Molecular engineering enables tailored …

Spiders employ different combinations of silk proteins to produce up to seven types of silks
with distinct mechanical properties for various purposes, ranging from prey capture to …

The great mechanical properties, biocompatibility and biodegradability of silk-based
materials make them applicable to the biomedical field. Genetic engineering enables the …

Spider silk threads have exceptional mechanical properties such as toughness, elasticity
and low density, which reach maximum values compared to other fibre materials. They are …

Silks are naturally spun fibrous proteins most often associated with silkworms and spiders.
For more than 5000 years, silk fiber from Bombyx mori silkworm has been used by mankind …

Silks are structural proteins produced by arthropods. Besides the well-known cocoon silk,
which is produced by larvae of the silk moth Bombyx mori to undergo metamorphosis inside …