Spider silk is a tough and versatile biological material combining high tensile strength and
extensibility through nanocomposite structure and its nonlinear elastic behaviour. Notably …

Since nanofibers have a high surface-to-volume ratio, van der Waals forces render them
attracted to virtually any surface. The high ratio provides significant advantages for …

Spidroin, with robust mechanical performance and good biocompatibility, could fulfill broad
applications in material science and biomedical fields. Development of miniature spidroin …

Typical orb webs with glue droplets are renewed regularly, sometimes multiple times per
night. Such behaviour, however, is rarely found with cribellate spiders. The adhesive portion …

We investigated the effect of additional continuous functional coatings, which changed the
hydrophilic–hydrophobic properties of the surface without heavily influencing the surface …

In this paper we present polymer surfaces inspired by the calamistrum of cribellate spiders.
The calamistrum resembles a micro-comb with a finger-print-like nanorippled topography …

Arachnids, particularly spiders, flourish in abundance within most ecosystems (Blamires et
al., 2007; Oxbrough and Ziesche, 2013; Henneken et al., 2022; Agnarsson, 2023; Fonseca …

Nature used millions of years of evolution to produce its material designs–a length of time
that is not available to scientists and engineers searching for novel solutions to complex …

The small diameter of nanofibres makes them an attractive material for various areas in
research and industry. For the production and further processing, however, their nanoscale …

Die Adhäsionsfähigkeit von Spinnenfäden ist ein entscheidender Faktor bei der Jagd von
Spinnen auf Beute. Während die meisten Spinnen Klebstoff verwenden, um ihre Beute zu …