New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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

(2010) Glareh Askarieh et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) Franz Hagn et al.   NATURE

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

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

Silk as a Biomimetic Ideal for Structural Polymers

(2009) David Porter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices

(2009) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Production of a recombinant mouse monoclonal antibody in transgenic silkworm cocoons

(2009) Masashi Iizuka et al.   FEBS Journal

Greatly Increased Toughness of Infiltrated Spider Silk

(2009) S.-M. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Preparation and characterization of regenerated Bombyx mori silk fibroin fiber with high strength

(2008) Z. H. Zhu et al.   Express Polymer Letters

A new route for silk

(2008) Fiorenzo G. Omenetto et al.   Nature Photonics