Spinning Beta Silks Requires Both pH Activation and Extensional Stress

Native-like Flow Properties of an Artificial Spider Silk Dope

(2021) Tina Arndt et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Stretching of Bombyx mori Silk Protein in Flow

(2021) Charley Schaefer et al.   MOLECULES

Structure–Function Relationship of Artificial Spider Silk Fibers Produced by Straining Flow Spinning

(2020) Nathalie Gonska et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Silk Protein Solution: A Natural Example of Sticky Reptation

(2020) Charley Schaefer et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Improving the Tensile Properties of Wet Spun Silk Fibers Using Rapid Bayesian Algorithm

(2020) Ya Yao et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Properties of Biomimetic Artificial Spider Silk Fibers Tuned by PostSpin Bath Incubation

(2020) Gabriele Greco et al.   MOLECULES

The effect of terminal globular domains on the response of recombinant mini-spidroins to fiber spinning triggers

(2020) William Finnigan et al.   Scientific Reports

Tensegrity Modelling and the High Toughness of Spider Dragline Silk

(2020) Fernando Fraternali et al.   Nanomaterials

The influence of metal ions on native silk rheology

(2020) Andreas Koeppel et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Understanding Secondary Structures of Silk Materials via Micro- and Nano-Infrared Spectroscopies

(2019) Jiajia Zhong et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Artificial spinning of natural silk threads

(2019) Martin Frydrych et al.   Scientific Reports

Engineering of silk proteins for materials applications

(2019) Merisa Saric et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Conservation of a pH-sensitive structure in the C-terminal region of spider silk extends across the entire silk gene family

(2018) Michelle Strickland et al.   HEREDITY

Uncovering the structure–function relationship in spider silk

(2018) Jeffery L. Yarger et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Changes in Silk Feedstock Rheology during Cocoon Construction: The Role of Calcium and Potassium Ions

(2018) Peter R. Laity et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

The Energy Requirements for Flow-Induced Solidification of Silk

(2018) James Sparkes et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Native Silk Feedstock

(2018) Chris Holland et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Thermo-rheological behaviour of native silk feedstocks

(2017) Peter R. Laity et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Analysis of the pressure requirements for silk spinning reveals a pultrusion dominated process

(2017) James Sparkes et al.   Nature Communications

Progress and Trends in Artificial Silk Spinning: A Systematic Review

(2017) Andreas Koeppel et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Progress and Trends in Artificial Silk Spinning: A Systematic Review

(2017) Andreas Koeppel et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Native Silk Feedstock as a Model Biopolymer: A Rheological Perspective

(2016) Peter R. Laity et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Linking naturally and unnaturally spun silks through the forced reeling of Bombyx mori

(2015) Beth Mortimer et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Carbonic anhydrase generates a pH gradient in Bombyx mori silk glands

(2015) L.J. Domigan et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Toward spinning artificial spider silk

(2015) Anna Rising et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Rheological behaviour of native silk feedstocks

(2015) P.R. Laity et al.   POLYMER

Silk–Its Mysteries, How It Is Made, and How It Is Used

(2015) Davoud Ebrahimi et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Silk–Its Mysteries, How It Is Made, and How It Is Used

(2015) Davoud Ebrahimi et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Water dependent structural changes of silk from Bombyx mori gland to fibre as evidenced by Raman and IR spectroscopies

(2014) Aline Percot et al.   VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

Thermally Induced Changes in Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Native Silks

(2013) Juan Guan et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Forced Reeling of Bombyx mori Silk: Separating Behavior and Processing Conditions

(2013) Beth Mortimer et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

In situ tensile tests of single silk fibres in an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)

(2013) Beth Mortimer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Anisotropic particles align perpendicular to the flow direction in narrow microchannels

(2013) M. Trebbin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The N-terminal domains of spider silk proteins assemble ultrafast and protected from charge screening

(2013) Simone Schwarze et al.   Nature Communications

N-Terminal Domain of Bombyx mori Fibroin Mediates the Assembly of Silk in Response to pH Decrease

(2012) Yong-Xing He et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Silks cope with stress by tuning their mechanical properties under load

(2012) Juan Guan et al.   POLYMER

Silk and Synthetic Polymers: Reconciling 100 Degrees of Separation

(2011) Chris Holland et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

pH-Triggered transition of silk fibroin from spherical micelles to nanofibrils in water

(2011) Peng Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH

There are many more lessons still to be learned from spider silks

(2011) Fritz Vollrath et al.   Soft Matter

pH-Dependent Dimerization and Salt-Dependent Stabilization of the N-terminal Domain of Spider Dragline Silk-Implications for Fiber Formation

(2010) Franz Hagn et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2010) Andrea Nova et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-assembly of spider silk proteins is controlled by a pH-sensitive relay

(2010) Glareh Askarieh et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Crystallization of an ethylene-based butene plastomer: the effect of uniaxial extension

(2010) Martin Sentmanat et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Insect Silk: One Name, Many Materials

(2009) Tara D. Sutherland et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy: An Efficient Technique to Quantitatively Determine the Orientation and Conformation of Proteins in Single Silk Fibers

(2009) Maxime Boulet-Audet et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY

Silks as ancient models for modern polymers

(2009) Fritz Vollrath et al.   POLYMER

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

Structural characteristics and properties of Bombyx mori silk fiber obtained by different artificial forcibly silking speeds

(2007) Md. Majibur Rahman Khan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES