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

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

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A conserved spider silk domain acts as a molecular switch that controls fibre assembly

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Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

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