Spider silk is considered a promising next-generation biomaterial due to its exceptional
toughness, coupled with its renewability and biodegradability. Contrary to the conventional …

The extraordinary mechanical performance of spider dragline silk is explained by its highly
ordered microstructure and results from the sequences of its constituent proteins. This …

Spiders have developed specialized silks with outstanding biophysical properties over
millions of years of evolution. As biopolymers composed by highly repetitive amino acid …

Spiders utilize fine adjustment of the physicochemical conditions within its silk spinning
system to regulate spidroin assembly into solid silk fibers with outstanding mechanical …

Spider major ampullate (MA) silk is sought after as a biomimetic because of its high strength
and extensibility. While the secondary structures of MA silk proteins (spidroins) influences …

Spider silk is of great interest because of its extraordinary physical properties, such as
strength and toughness. Here we discuss how these physical properties relate to the way in …

Spider silks are among the toughest known materials and thus provide models for
renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable biopolymers. However, the entirety of their …

Spider silk fibres share unprecedented structural and mechanical properties which span
from the macroscale to nanoscale and beyond. This is possible due to the molecular …

Spider's minor ampullate silk, or MI-silk, exhibits distinct mechanical properties and water
resistance compared to its major ampullate counterpart (MA-silk). The principal protein …

The superlative mechanical properties of spider silk and its conspicuous variations have
instigated significant interest over the past few years. However, current attempts to …