Silk and Synthetic Polymers: Reconciling 100 Degrees of Separation

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

(2011) Fritz Vollrath et al.   Soft Matter

Monodisperse macromolecules – A stepping stone to understanding industrial polymers

(2010) Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

A New Scenario of Flow-Induced Shish-Kebab Formation in Entangled Polymer Solutions

(2010) Takeji Hashimoto et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Critical Strain for Shish-Kebab Formation

(2010) Tingzi Yan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Control of Structural Morphology in Shear-Induced Crystallization of Polymers

(2010) Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2010) Franz Hagn et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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

Time-resolved polarized light imaging of sheared materials: application to polymer crystallization

(2010) Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk   Soft Matter

Silk as a Biomimetic Ideal for Structural Polymers

(2009) David Porter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The Specific Work of Flow as a Criterion for Orientation in Polymer Crystallization

(2008) Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk et al.   MACROMOLECULES

The role of kinetics of water and amide bonding in protein stability

(2007) D. Porter et al.   Soft Matter