Biomimetic materials have emerged as attractive and competitive alternatives for tissue
engineering (TE) and regenerative medicine. In contrast to conventional biomaterials or …

All spiders produce protein-based biopolymer fibres that we call silk. The most studied of
these silks is spider dragline silk, which is very tough and relatively abundant compared with …

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

Nanofibrils play a pivotal role in spider silk and are responsible for many of the impressive
properties of this unique natural material. However, little is known about the internal …

Mechanical properties of biomaterials play an important role in their biological performance.
Among the most important parameters in designing of biomaterials, their structure and …

Spider silks are protein-based “biopolymer” filaments or threads secreted by specialized
epithelial cells as concentrated soluble precursors of highly repetitive primary sequences …

Dragline silk of golden orb-weaver spiders (Nephilinae) is noted for its unsurpassed
toughness, combining extraordinary extensibility and tensile strength, suggesting industrial …

The design principles of spider dragline silk, nature's high-performance fiber, are still largely
unknown, in particular for the noncrystalline glycine-rich domains, which form the bulk of the …

A number of animals have evolved to produce silk-based composite materials for a variety of
task-specific applications. The review initially focuses on the composite structure of silk …

Taking advantage of recent advances in polarized Raman microspectroscopy, and based on
a rational decomposition of the amide I band, the conformation and orientation of proteins …