Development of New Smart Materials and Spinning Systems Inspired by Natural Silks and Their Applications

Bioinspired Super-Wettability from Fundamental Research to Practical Applications

(2015) Liping Wen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Structural optimization of 3D-printed synthetic spider webs for high strength

(2015) Zhao Qin et al.   Nature Communications

Spider wrapping silk fibre architecture arising from its modular soluble protein precursor

(2015) Marie-Laurence Tremblay et al.   Scientific Reports

Tough protein–carbon nanotube hybrid fibers comparable to natural spider silks

(2015) Guangqiang Fang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Recombinant DNA production of spider silk proteins

(2015) Olena Tokareva et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Flexible Fabrication of Biomimetic Bamboo-Like Hybrid Microfibers

(2014) Yue Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Multicompartmental Microfibers from Microfluidics

(2014) Yao Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Engineering of Thermal Materials

(2014) Peng Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Green Composite Lotus Fibers

(2014) Mengxi Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

From Micelles to Fibers: Balancing Self-Assembling and Random Coiling Domains in pH-Responsive Silk-Collagen-Like Protein-Based Polymers

(2014) Lennart H. Beun et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Dilute Self-Healing Hydrogels of Silk-Collagen-Like Block Copolypeptides at Neutral pH

(2014) Monika D. Golinska et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Hydrophobic Drug-Triggered Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles from Silk-Elastin-Like Protein Polymers for Drug Delivery

(2014) Xiao-Xia Xia et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Microchip-based engineering of super-pancreatic islets supported by adipose-derived stem cells

(2014) Yesl Jun et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Cell encapsulation via microtechnologies

(2014) AhRan Kang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Simple conditions for large morphological variations in thermoresponsive biopolymeric microstructures

(2014) Jie Cheng et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Processing of recombinant spider silk proteins into tailor-made materials for biomaterials applications

(2014) Kristin Schacht et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Tough silk fibers prepared in air using a biomimetic microfluidic chip

(2014) Jie Luo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Temperature mediates the effect of humidity on the viscoelasticity of glycoprotein glue within the droplets of an orb-weaving spider's prey capture threads

(2014) S. D. Stellwagen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Synthetic adhesive attachment discs inspired by spider's pyriform silk architecture

(2014) Dharamdeep Jain et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Microfluidic spinning of micro- and nano-scale fibers for tissue engineering

(2014) Yesl Jun et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Aqueous Self-Assembly within the Homologous Peptide Series AnK

(2014) Çelen Çağrı Cenker et al.   LANGMUIR

Genetically Programmable Thermoresponsive Plasmonic Gold/Silk-Elastin Protein Core/Shell Nanoparticles

(2014) Yinan Lin et al.   LANGMUIR

All-water-based electron-beam lithography using silk as a resist

(2014) Sunghwan Kim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A toolbox of oligopeptide-modified polymers for tailored elastomers

(2014) Emmanuel Croisier et al.   Nature Communications

Structure–function–property–design interplay in biopolymers: Spider silk

(2013) Olena Tokareva et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Micro/Nanometer-Scale Fiber with Highly Ordered Structures by Mimicking the Spinning Process of Silkworm

(2013) Su-Kyoung Chae et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tuning Chelation by the Surfactant-Like Peptide A6H Using Predetermined pH Values

(2013) V. Castelletto et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Cellular building unit integrated with microstrand-shaped bacterial cellulose

(2013) Kayoko Hirayama et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Microfluidics-generated pancreatic islet microfibers for enhanced immunoprotection

(2013) Yesl Jun et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Recombinant spider silk with cell binding motifs for specific adherence of cells

(2013) Mona Widhe et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Temperature-triggered directional motion of tiny water droplets on bioinspired fibers in humidity

(2013) Yongping Hou et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Polypeptide microgel capsules as drug carriers

(2013) Jie Cheng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH

Silkworm cocoon as natural material and structure for thermal insulation

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Metre-long cell-laden microfibres exhibit tissue morphologies and functions

(2013) Hiroaki Onoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Webs measure up

(2013) Zhao Qin et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

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

Silk proteins for biomedical applications: Bioengineering perspectives

(2013) Banani Kundu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Self-assembly of a model amphiphilic oligopeptide incorporating an arginine headgroup

(2013) Ian W. Hamley et al.   Soft Matter

Photo-controlled water gathering on bio-inspired fibers

(2013) Shile Feng et al.   Soft Matter

The N-terminal domains of spider silk proteins assemble ultrafast and protected from charge screening

(2013) Simone Schwarze et al.   Nature Communications

Unravelling the biodiversity of nanoscale signatures of spider silk fibres

(2013) Luciano P. Silva et al.   Nature Communications

Atomistic Investigation of Load Transfer Between DWNT Bundles “Crosslinked” by PMMA Oligomers

(2012) Mohammad Naraghi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Engineered Large Spider Eggcase Silk Protein for Strong Artificial Fibers

(2012) Zhi Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Microfluidic Spinning of Flat Alginate Fibers with Grooves for Cell-Aligning Scaffolds

(2012) Edward Kang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2012) Xiaopeng Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Spider Silk: Super Material or Thin Fibre?

(2012) D. Porter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk Materials - A Road to Sustainable High Technology

(2012) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Microfluidic Control of the Internal Morphology in Nanofiber-Based Macroscopic Cables

(2012) Daisuke Kiriya et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cell adhesion and proliferation on RGD-modified recombinant spider silk proteins

(2012) Stefanie Wohlrab et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Bioinspired Electrospun Knotted Microfibers for Fog Harvesting

(2012) Hua Dong et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Synthesis and Thermal Conductivities of the Biomorphic Al2O3Fibers Derived from Silk Template

(2012) Tianchi Wang et al.   International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology

Interactions of cells with silk surfaces

(2012) Aldo Leal-Egaña et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

N-Terminal Domain of Bombyx mori Fibroin Mediates the Assembly of Silk in Response to pH Decrease

(2012) Yong-Xing He et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs

(2012) Steven W. Cranford et al.   NATURE

Cobweb-weaving spiders produce different attachment discs for locomotion and prey capture

(2012) Vasav Sahni et al.   Nature Communications

Self-Assembly of Silk-Collagen-like Triblock Copolymers Resembles a Supramolecular Living Polymerization

(2011) Lennart H. Beun et al.   ACS Nano

Interactions of Fibroblasts with Different Morphologies Made of an Engineered Spider Silk Protein

(2011) Aldo Leal-Egaña et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Genetically Engineered Chimeric Silk-Silver Binding Proteins

(2011) Heather A. Currie et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bio-inspired Heterostructured Bead-on-String Fibers That Respond to Environmental Wetting

(2011) Xuelin Tian et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Meter-Long and Robust Supramolecular Strands Encapsulated in Hydrogel Jackets

(2011) Daisuke Kiriya et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spider Silk-Based Gene Carriers for Tumor Cell-Specific Delivery

(2011) Keiji Numata et al.   BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY

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

(2011) Michelle E. Kinahan et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Inducing β-Sheets Formation in Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers by Aqueous Post-Spin Stretching

(2011) Bo An et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Tunable Self-Assembly of Genetically Engineered Silk–Elastin-like Protein Polymers

(2011) Xiao-Xia Xia et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Conserved C-Terminal Domain of Spider Tubuliform Spidroin 1 Contributes to Extensibility in Synthetic Fibers

(2011) Eric Gnesa et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Antimicrobial functionalized genetically engineered spider silk

(2011) Sílvia C. Gomes et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Digitally tunable physicochemical coding of material composition and topography in continuous microfibres

(2011) Edward Kang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin

(2011) Danielle N Rockwood et al.   Nature Protocols

Nanotubes and bilayers in a model peptide system

(2011) Çelen Çağrı Cenker et al.   Soft Matter

Direction Controlled Driving of Tiny Water Drops on Bioinspired Artificial Spider Silks

(2010) Hao Bai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk-Based Gene Carriers with Cell Membrane Destabilizing Peptides

(2010) Keiji Numata et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Antibacterial Activities of Short Designer Peptides: a Link between Propensity for Nanostructuring and Capacity for Membrane Destabilization

(2010) Cuixia Chen et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Structure of single-wall peptide nanotubes: in situ flow aligning X-ray diffraction

(2010) Valeria Castelletto et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Novel PDMS cylindrical channels that generate coaxial flow, and application to fabrication of microfibers and particles

(2010) Edward Kang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Microfluidic synthesis of pure chitosan microfibers for bio-artificial liver chip

(2010) Kwang Ho Lee et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

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

Directional water collection on wetted spider silk

(2010) Yongmei Zheng et al.   NATURE

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A self-assembly pathway to aligned monodomain gels

(2010) Shuming Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

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

Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

(2010) Sheng Shen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Supramolecular design of self-assembling nanofibers for cartilage regeneration

(2010) Ramille N. Shah et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Native-sized recombinant spider silk protein produced in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli results in a strong fiber

(2010) X.-X. Xia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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

Viscoelastic solids explain spider web stickiness

(2010) Vasav Sahni et al.   Nature Communications

Wet-Spinning of Regenerated Silk Fiber from Aqueous Silk Fibroin Solution: Discussion of Spinning Parameters

(2009) Jiaping Yan et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Controlled cellular orientation on PLGA microfibers with defined diameters

(2009) C. M. Hwang et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

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

(2009) Markus Heim et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Comparative studies on the self-assembling behaviors of cationic and catanionic surfactant-like peptides

(2009) Feng Qiu et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

The role of granules within viscous capture threads of orb-weaving spiders

(2009) B. D. Opell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The adhesive delivery system of viscous capture threads spun by orb-weaving spiders

(2009) B. D. Opell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Peptide Nanotube Nematic Phase

(2009) S. Bucak et al.   LANGMUIR

Triblock Protein Copolymers Forming Supramolecular Nanotapes and pH-Responsive Gels

(2009) Aernout A. Martens et al.   MACROMOLECULES

True solutions of single-walled carbon nanotubes for assembly into macroscopic materials

(2009) Virginia A. Davis et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

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

Synthesis of Cell-Laden Alginate Hollow Fibers Using Microfluidic Chips and Microvascularized Tissue-Engineering Applications

(2009) Kwang Ho Lee et al.   Small

Dynamic self-assembly of surfactant-like peptides A6K and A9K

(2009) Jing Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Silk Fibers Extruded Artificially from Aqueous Solutions of RegeneratedBombyx moriSilk Fibroin are Tougher than their Natural Counterparts

(2008) Guanqiang Zhou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk-inspired ‘molecular chimeras’: Atomistic simulation of nanoarchitectures based on thiophene–peptide copolymers

(2008) Olga A. Gus’kova et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Vertically Aligned Pearl-like Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Fiber Spinning

(2008) Huisheng Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Microfluidic Chip-Based Fabrication of PLGA Microfiber Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

(2008) Chang Mo Hwang et al.   LANGMUIR

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

Making Strong Fibers

(2008) Han Gi Chae et al.   SCIENCE