Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

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Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

Spider silk is one of the most fascinating natural materials known to humans. It is more flexible than rubber yet tougher ...

The undegummed silk fibre. Photo: Freyla Ferguson/IFM Silkworm silk is a protein-based fibre with mechanical properties rivalling synthetic fibres and spun using a fraction of the energy. Yet despite ...

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Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...