6. Purified spider-silk proteins are ready to be made into fibers. 7. Part of the fiber-making apparatus. During the spinning process, fibers are extruded from a solution of protein, run through ...

These methods produce water-insoluble silk proteins, which then need to be spun into fibers in the presence of harsh solvents—a process quite unlike the one spiders use. Spider silk proteins are ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains.

one great advantage of the circular assembly system is that it allows us to easily monitor the entire assembly process of silk fibers by investigating the resultant structures at different assembly ...

can obtain kilometric fibers from the aqueous protein solution. According to the researchers, "This is the first successful example of biomimetic spider silk spinning. We have designed a process ...

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