Biomimetic engineering of spider silk fibres with graphene for electric devices with humidity and motion sensitivity

Preparation of biomimetic hierarchically helical fiber actuators from carbon nanotubes

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A crack-based nickel@graphene-wrapped polyurethane sponge ternary hybrid obtained by electrodeposition for highly sensitive wearable strain sensors

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Bioinspired Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as a Spider Silk Structure for Ultrahigh Mechanical Property

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Hybrid Silk Fibers Dry-Spun from Regenerated Silk Fibroin/Graphene Oxide Aqueous Solutions

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Highly Stretchable and Sensitive Strain Sensor Based on Facilely Prepared Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam Composite

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High-Performance Strain Sensors with Fish-Scale-Like Graphene-Sensing Layers for Full-Range Detection of Human Motions

(2016) Qiang Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Graphene Reinforced Carbon Nanotube Networks for Wearable Strain Sensors

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Spider silk as a blueprint for greener materials: a review

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Facile Synthesis of Conductive Polypyrrole Wrinkle Topographies on Polydimethylsiloxane via a Swelling–Deswelling Process and Their Potential Uses in Tissue Engineering

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Highly Stretchable and Wearable Graphene Strain Sensors with Controllable Sensitivity for Human Motion Monitoring

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Technology-driven layer-by-layer assembly of nanofilms

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Highly conductive graphene-coated silk fabricated via a repeated coating-reduction approach

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Highly Stretchable and Sensitive Strain Sensor Based on Silver Nanowire–Elastomer Nanocomposite

(2014) Morteza Amjadi et al.   ACS Nano

Sensitive, High-Strain, High-Rate Bodily Motion Sensors Based on Graphene–Rubber Composites

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Ultrasensitive mechanical crack-based sensor inspired by the spider sensory system

(2014) Daeshik Kang et al.   NATURE

Directed Growth of Silk Nanofibrils on Graphene and Their Hybrid Nanocomposites

(2014) Shengjie Ling et al.   ACS Macro Letters

A Novel Method for Applying Reduced Graphene Oxide Directly to Electronic Textiles from Yarns to Fabrics

(2013) Yong Ju Yun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The evolution of surface charge on graphene oxide during the reduction and its application in electroanalysis

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Carbon nanotubes on a spider silk scaffold

(2013) Eden Steven et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrahigh humidity sensitivity of graphene oxide

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Biodegradable nanocomposites of amyloid fibrils and graphene with shape-memory and enzyme-sensing properties

(2012) Chaoxu Li et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Tunable Silk: Using Microfluidics to Fabricate Silk Fibers with Controllable Properties

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Supercontraction in Nephila spider dragline silk – Relaxation into equilibrium state

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Physical characterization of functionalized spider silk: electronic and sensing properties

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Supercontraction of dragline silk spun by lynx spiders (Oxyopidae)

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Directional water collection on wetted spider silk

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Forming wrinkled stiff films on polymeric substrates at room temperature for stretchable interconnects applications

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Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

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

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Spider silk, just the stuff to make super-powerful muscle

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