Materials by design—A perspective from atoms to structures

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

(2012) Xiaopeng Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A review of combined experimental and computational procedures for assessing biopolymer structure–process–property relationships

(2012) Greta Gronau et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A Materiomics Approach to Spider Silk: Protein Molecules to Webs

(2012) Anna Tarakanova et al.   JOM

Materials by design: Merging proteins and music

(2012) Joyce Y. Wong et al.   Nano Today

Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs

(2012) Steven W. Cranford et al.   NATURE

Ologs: A Categorical Framework for Knowledge Representation

(2012) David I. Spivak et al.   PLoS One

Sequence-structure correlations in silk: Poly-Ala repeat of N. clavipes MaSp1 is naturally optimized at a critical length scale

(2011) Graham Bratzel et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Nanoconfinement of Spider Silk Fibrils Begets Superior Strength, Extensibility, and Toughness

(2011) Tristan Giesa et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanomechanics of functional and pathological amyloid materials

(2011) Tuomas P. J. Knowles et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies

(2010) S. Keten et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils

(2010) Andrea Nova et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tu(r)ning weakness to strength

(2010) Markus J. Buehler   Nano Today

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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

Inspiration and application in the evolution of biomaterials

(2009) Nathaniel Huebsch et al.   NATURE

Deformation and failure of protein materials in physiologically extreme conditions and disease

(2009) Markus J. Buehler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Merger of structure and material in nacre and bone – Perspectives on de novo biomimetic materials

(2009) Horacio D. Espinosa et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Assembly mechanism of recombinant spider silk proteins

(2008) S. Rammensee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE