Brown Recluse Spider's Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Stiff Extensible Silk

Silk as a Multifunctional Biomaterial Substrate for Reduced Glial Scarring around Brain-Penetrating Electrodes

(2013) Lee W. Tien et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Non-invasive determination of the complete elastic moduli of spider silks

(2013) Kristie J. Koski et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Silk Materials - A Road to Sustainable High Technology

(2012) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Shear-Induced Self-Assembly of Native Silk Proteins into Fibrils Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2012) Imke Greving et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Damage control

(2012) Fiorenzo G. Omenetto et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Biologically inspired enhancement of pressure-sensitive adhesives using a thin film-terminated fibrillar interface

(2012) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   Soft Matter

The Intrinsic Resolution Limit in the Atomic Force Microscope: Implications for Heights of Nano-Scale Features

(2011) Sergio Santos et al.   PLoS One

Peak Oil Production May Already Be Here

(2011) R. A. Kerr   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Fritz Vollrath et al.   Soft Matter

Co-cross-linking Silk Matrices with Silica Nanostructures for Robust Ultrathin Nanocomposites

(2010) Eugenia Kharlampieva et al.   ACS Nano

Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics

(2010) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

(2010) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   PLoS One

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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

Hierarchical structures made of proteins. The complex architecture of spider webs and their constituent silk proteins

(2009) Markus Heim et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Polymeric materials based on silk proteins

(2008) John G. Hardy et al.   POLYMER

A biodegradable and biocompatible gecko-inspired tissue adhesive

(2008) A. Mahdavi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA