Putting a New Spin on Spider Silk
- 5 January 1996
- journal article
- perspectives
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 271 (5245) , 39-40
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.271.5245.39
Abstract
The dragline silk spun by spiders exhibits unusual tensile strength and the energy required to break it can be higher than that of Kevlar. In his Perspective, Tirrell comments on a research report in the same issue by Simmons et al. (p. 84) that elucidates some of the structural properties that give spider silk its impressive characteristics.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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