Biomimetic composites with enhanced toughening using silk-inspired triblock proteins and aligned nanocellulose reinforcements

Advanced Materials through Assembly of Nanocelluloses

(2018) Eero Kontturi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Effects of nanofiber orientations on the fracture toughness of cellulose nanopaper

(2018) Qinghua Meng et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Self-Coacervation of a Silk-Like Protein and Its Use As an Adhesive for Cellulosic Materials

(2018) Pezhman Mohammadi et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Mussel adhesion – essential footwork

(2017) J. Herbert Waite   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A multiscale crack-bridging model of cellulose nanopaper

(2017) Qinghua Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Silken promises

(2017) Robert F. Service   SCIENCE

Aligning cellulose nanofibril dispersions for tougher fibers

(2017) Pezhman Mohammadi et al.   Scientific Reports

Secondary Structure Transition and Critical Stress for a Model of Spider Silk Assembly

(2016) Tristan Giesa et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Nanomechanics of silk: the fundamentals of a strong, tough and versatile material

(2016) Isabelle Su et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Biomimetic Fibers Made of Recombinant Spidroins with the Same Toughness as Natural Spider Silk

(2015) Aniela Heidebrecht et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Toward spinning artificial spider silk

(2015) Anna Rising et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Infiltration of chitin by protein coacervates defines the squid beak mechanical gradient

(2015) YerPeng Tan et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Enhanced Plastic Deformations of Nanofibrillated Cellulose Film by Adsorbed Moisture and Protein-Mediated Interactions

(2014) Jani-Markus Malho et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Humidity and Multiscale Structure Govern Mechanical Properties and Deformation Modes in Films of Native Cellulose Nanofibrils

(2013) Alejandro J. Benítez et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Towards High-Performance Bioinspired Composites

(2012) André R. Studart   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Sequence correction of random coil chemical shifts: correlation between neighbor correction factors and changes in the Ramachandran distribution

(2011) Magnus Kjaergaard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR

The conflicts between strength and toughness

(2011) Robert O. Ritchie   NATURE MATERIALS

On the Fracture Toughness of Advanced Materials

(2009) Maximilien E. Launey et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Insect Silk: One Name, Many Materials

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

Solution structure of eggcase silk protein and its implications for silk fiber formation

(2009) Z. Lin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A One Pot, One Step, Precision Cloning Method with High Throughput Capability

(2008) Carola Engler et al.   PLoS One

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