Strategies for making high‐performance artificial spider silk fibers

B Schmuck, G Greco, TB Pessatti… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial spider silk is an attractive material for many technical applications since it is a
biobased fiber that can be produced under ambient conditions but still outcompetes …

Sustainable Spinning of Artificial Spider Silk Fibers with Excellent Toughness and Inherent Potential for Functionalization

R Fan, K Knuuttila, B Schmuck, G Greco… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite impressive progress in the field, there are still several major bottlenecks in
producing fibers from recombinantly produced spider‐silk‐like proteins to replicate the …

Development of a process for the spinning of synthetic spider silk

CG Copeland, BE Bell, CD Christensen… - … biomaterials science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Spider silks have unique mechanical properties but current efforts to duplicate those
properties with recombinant proteins have been unsuccessful. This study was designed to …

[HTML][HTML] Properties of biomimetic artificial spider silk fibers tuned by PostSpin bath incubation

G Greco, J Francis, T Arndt, B Schmuck, F G. Bäcklund… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Efficient production of artificial spider silk fibers with properties that match its natural
counterpart has still not been achieved. Recently, a biomimetic process for spinning …

To spin or not to spin: spider silk fibers and more

E Doblhofer, A Heidebrecht, T Scheibel - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Spider silk fibers have a sophisticated hierarchical structure composed of proteins with
highly repetitive sequences. Their extraordinary mechanical properties, defined by a unique …

Engineered spider silk proteins for biomimetic spinning of fibers with toughness equal to dragline silks

T Arndt, G Greco, B Schmuck, J Bunz… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spider silk is the toughest fiber found in nature, and bulk production of artificial spider silk
that matches its mechanical properties remains elusive. Development of miniature spider …

Production and processing of spider silk proteins

JG Hardy, TR Scheibel - Journal of Polymer Science Part A …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Natural spider silk fibers have impressive mechanical properties (outperforming many man‐
made fibers) and are, moreover, biocompatible, biodegradable, and produced under benign …

Regenerated spider silk: Processing, properties, and structure

A Seidel, O Liivak, S Calve, J Adaska, G Ji… - …, 2000 - ACS Publications
Spider dragline silk is Nature's high-performance protein fiber. This biomaterial has attracted
much interest from scientists in various disciplines since it has become feasible to produce …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the secrets of spider silk

L Eisoldt, A Smith, T Scheibel - Materials Today, 2011 - Elsevier
Spider silks have been employed by man for several thousands of years. Spider silks
possess extraordinary mechanical properties due to a combination of strength and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of physio-chemical spinning conditions on the mechanical properties of biomimetic spider silk fibers

B Schmuck, G Greco, FG Bäcklund, NM Pugno… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial spider silk has emerged as a biobased fiber that could replace some petroleum-
based materials that are on the market today. Recent progress made it possible to produce …