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Silks: Crystal Networks in Silk Fibrous Materials: From Hierarchical Structure to Ultra Performance (Small 9‐10/2015)
Author(s) -
Nguyen Anh Tuan,
Huang QiaoLing,
Yang Zhen,
Lin Naibo,
Xu Gangqin,
Liu Xiang Yang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201570051
Subject(s) - mesoscopic physics , silk , materials science , soft materials , nanotechnology , polymer science , bridge (graph theory) , crystal (programming language) , composite material , computer science , physics , condensed matter physics , medicine , programming language
Crystal networks bridge the hard and the soft worlds of materials, as described by X. Y. Liu and co‐workers on page 1039. For many functional materials of complex structures, the functionality that is critical to macroscopic behavior begins to manifest itself at the mesoscale. While crystals have been hard functional materials for centuries, crystal networks are found to be one type of mesoscopic structure, and they play a key role in the macroscopic performance of various soft materials.