Liquid crystalline spinning of spider si
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Vollrath, Fritz; Knight, David P.
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Article
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2001
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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Spider silk has outstanding mechanical properties despite being spun at close to ambient temperatures and pressures using water as the solvent. The spider achieves this feat of benign ยฎbre processing by judiciously controlling the folding and crystallization of the main protein constituents, and by