Effects of the amino acid sequence on thermal conduction through β-sheet crystals of natural silk protein

Functionalized Spider Silk Spheres As Drug Carriers for Targeted Cancer Therapy

(2014) Anna Florczak et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

The biocompatibility of silk fibroin and acellular collagen scaffolds for tissue engineering in the ear

(2014) Yi Shen et al.   Biomedical Materials

Hydrogen Bonds and Heat Diffusion in α-Helices: A Computational Study

(2014) German Miño et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Protein Thermal Conductivity Measured in the Solid State Reveals Anharmonic Interactions of Vibrations in a Fractal Structure

(2014) Brian M. Foley et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Hydrogen bonding-assisted thermal conduction in β-sheet crystals of spider silk protein

(2014) Lin Zhang et al.   Nanoscale

Thermophysical properties of the dragline silk of Nephila clavipes spider

(2014) Changhu Xing et al.   POLYMER

Folate conjugated silk fibroin nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery

(2013) Bano Subia et al.   Integrative Biology

Silkworm cocoon as natural material and structure for thermal insulation

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

New Secrets of Spider Silk: Exceptionally High Thermal Conductivity and Its Abnormal Change under Stretching

(2012) Xiaopeng Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reproducing Natural Spider Silks’ Copolymer Behavior in Synthetic Silk Mimics

(2012) Bo An et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Si/Ge Superlattice Nanowires with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

(2012) Ming Hu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Effect of lattice mismatch on phonon transmission and interface thermal conductance across dissimilar material interfaces

(2012) Xiaobo Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal transport in single silkworm silks and the behavior under stretching

(2012) Guoqing Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Molecular Dynamics Calculations of the Thermal Conductivity of Molecular Liquids, Polymers, and Carbon Nanotubes

(2011) Elena A. Algaer et al.   SOFT MATERIALS

Tuning the thermal conductivity of polymers with mechanical strains

(2010) Jun Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

(2010) F. G. Omenetto et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanical Response of Silk Crystalline Units from Force-Distribution Analysis

(2009) Senbo Xiao et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY