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Feature Article
Chem. Commun., 2009, 6515 - 6529, DOI: 10.1039/b911049f
Animal silks: their structures, properties and artificial production
Chengjie Fu, Zhengzhong Shao and Vollrath Fritz
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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