The advances in process engineering, nanotechnology, and materials science gradually
enable the potential applications of biomass in novel energy storage technologies such as …

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 …

Connecting different electronic devices is usually straightforward because they have paired,
standardized interfaces, in which the shapes and sizes match each other perfectly. Tissue …

We report a self-consistent method to translate amino acid sequences into audible sound,
use the representation in the musical space to train a neural network, and then apply it to …

Self-powered actuation driven by ambient humidity is of practical interest for applications
such as hygroscopic artificial muscles. We demonstrate that spider dragline silk exhibits a …

Water and humidity severely affect the material properties of spider major ampullate silk,
causing the fiber to become plasticized, contract, swell and undergo torsion. Several amino …

Silk embodies outstanding material properties and biologically relevant functions achieved
through a delicate hierarchical structure. It can be used to create high‐performance …

Spider silk is a protein material that exhibits extraordinary and nontrivial properties such as
the ability to soften and decrease its length by up to∼ 60% upon exposure to high humidity …

Protein self‐assembly processes, by which polypeptides interact and independently form
multimeric structures, lead to a wide array of different endpoints. Structures formed range …

Biologically derived and biologically inspired fibers with outstanding mechanical properties
have found attractive technical applications across diverse fields. Despite recent advances …