Surprising strength of silkworm silk

Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk

Fritz Vollrath, David P. Knight · Nature · 2001 · 1.6K citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Spider Silk +4

Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells

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The effect of spinning conditions on the mechanics of a spider's dragline silk

Fritz Vollrath, Bo Madsen, Zhengzhong Shao · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2001 · 276 citations · Full text

Raman spectroscopic studies of silk fibroin fromBombyx mori

Patrizia Monti, Giuliano Freddi, A. Bertoluzza et al. · Journal of Raman Spectroscopy · 1998 · 153 citations

Materials Science, Textile Engineering, Engineering +12

Mechanical properties of silkworm silk in liquid media

José Pérez‐Rigueiro · Polymer · 2000 · 134 citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Mechanical Properties +3