Spider silk as rubber

The silks produced by spiders are exceptional structural materials. Although their tensile strengths are similar to those of cellulose, collagen and chitin, their extensibilities are considerably greater 1,2 . Thus, the energy required to break spider silk (that is, its toughness) can be 10 times gr...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 1984-01, Vol.309 (5968), p.551-552
Hauptverfasser:	Gosline, J.M, Denny, M.W, DeMont, M.E
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Araneus diadematus Humanities and Social Sciences letter multidisciplinary Science Science (multidisciplinary)
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