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Animal Silks: Their Structures, Properties and Artificial Production

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Specialty Chemistry
Date 2009 Oct 30
PMID 19865641
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This feature article reviews recent progress in the understanding of the hierarchically organized structures, the perfectly balanced mechanical properties and the structure-property relationship of the natural animal silk fibres, as well as the experimental attempts to fabricate man-made silk fibres by means of wet spinning, dry spinning, electrospinning and transgenosis.

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