Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

BACKGROUND: Combining high strength and elasticity, spider silks are exceptionally tough, i.e., able to absorb massive kinetic energy before breaking. Spider silk is therefore a model polymer for development of high performance biomimetic fibers. There are over 41.000 described species of spiders, m...

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Main Authors: Agnarsson, Ingi, Kuntner, Matjaž, Blackledge, Todd A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939878/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856804
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011234
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