The rich structures and hierarchical organizations in nature provide many sources of
inspiration for advanced material designs. We wish to recapitulate properties such as high …

Spider silk is a natural polymeric fiber with high tensile strength, toughness, and has distinct
thermal, optical, and biocompatible properties. The mechanical properties of spider silk are …

Structural proteins, including silk fibroins, play an important role in shaping the skeletons
and structures of cells, tissues, and organisms. The amino acid sequences of structural …

Spider silks are tougher than almost all other materials in the world and thus are considered
ideal materials by scientists and the industry. Although there have been tremendous …

It is highly desirable to develop fiber materials with high strength and toughness while
increasing fiber strength always results in a decrease in toughness. Spider silk is a natural …

Green and scalable production of some fibrous materials with higher fracture energy has
long been the goal of researchers. Although some progress has been made in recent years …

Polypeptides inspired by the natural functional and structural proteins present in living
systems are promising materials for various fields in terms of their versatile functionality and …

The development of fully natural wheat gluten foams showing rapid and high uptake of
water, sheep blood, and saline solution, while maintaining high mechanical stability in the …

Synthesis of superabsorbent particles from nontoxic wheat gluten (WG) protein, as an
industrial co‐product, is presented. A natural molecular cross‐linker named genipin (a …

Spider silks are increasingly gaining interest for potential use as biomaterials in tissue
engineering and biomedical applications. Owing to their facile and versatile processability in …