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Artificial Spider Silk: Scalable Spider‐Silk‐Like Supertough Fibers using a Pseudoprotein Polymer (Adv. Mater. 48/2019)
Author(s) -
Gu Lin,
Jiang Yuanzhang,
Hu Jinlian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201970341
Subject(s) - spider silk , silk , spider , materials science , polymer science , polymer , toughness , composite material , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , biology , ecology
Spider silk is the toughest fiber in the natural world. By introducing β‐sheet crystals and α‐helical peptides simultaneously in a pseudoprotein polymer, as described in article number 1904311, Jinlian Hu and co‐workers prepare a supertough artificial spider silk using a facile chemical synthesis route. The toughness (≈387 MJ m −3 ) is more than twice the reported value of common spider dragline silk.
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