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cond-mat.soft2016★ 97 cited
In-drop capillary spooling of spider capture thread inspires hybrid fibers with mixed solid-liquid mechanical properties
Hervé Elettro, Sébastien Neukirch, Fritz Vollrath +1
An essential element in the web-trap architecture, the capture silk spun by ecribellate orb spiders consists of glue droplets sitting astride a silk filament. Mechanically this thr…
physics.optics2016★ 93 cited
Spider Silk: The Mother Nature's Biological Superlens
James N Monks, Bing Yan, Zengbo Wang
This paper demonstrates a possible new microfiber bio near field lens that uses minor ampullate spider silk,spun from the Nephila edulis spider, to create a real time image of a su…