Animal silks: their structures, properties and artificial production

Chengjie Fu; Zhengzhong Shao; Vollrath Fritz

doi:10.1039/B911049F

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Chemical Communications

Issue 43, 2009

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Animal silks: their structures, properties and artificial production

Chengjie Fu , Zhengzhong Shao and Vollrath Fritz

Chem. Commun., 2009, 6515-6529

DOI: 10.1039/B911049F
Received 05 Jun 2009, Accepted 21 Jul 2009
First published on the web 08 Sep 2009

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This feature article reviews recent progress in the understanding of the hierarchically organized structures, the perfectly balanced mechanical properties and the structure–property relationship of the natural animal silk fibres, as well as the experimental attempts to fabricate man-made silk fibres by means of wet spinning, dry spinning, electrospinning and transgenosis.

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