BIOMIMETIC FUNCTIONAL FIBERS INSPIRED BY SPIDER SILK

H. Venkatesan; JL. Hu; JM. Chen; HY. Liu; W. Liu

BIOMIMETIC FUNCTIONAL FIBERS INSPIRED BY SPIDER SILK

H. Venkatesan^*
, JL. Hu
, JM. Chen
, HY. Liu
, W. Liu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

Spider silks display interesting mechanical properties owing to their specifically designed amino acid building blocks. Territorial and cannibalistic nature of spiders makes them difficult to farm like silkworms. It is the dream of scientists to seek alternative methods to produce spider silk inspired fibers. The hierarchical difference in microstructure of silks give rise to variable mechanical properties to meet different needs of spider. Supercontraction is one of the characteristic properties of the dragline silk where the unrestrained fiber can contract up to 50% of the original length to generate ample stress under influence of humidity. This fascinating property of spider silk is produced by synergistic structure formed by highly ordered β-sheet crystals and less ordered malleable amorphous network Noteworthily, this behaviour of spider silk can be made repeatable after each supercontraction cycle by restraining the fibre to a …

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th World Textile Conference on Textiles at the Crossroads (AUTEX 2019) - Ghent, Belgium Duration: 11 Jun 2019 → 15 Jun 2019 http://autex2019.semicomedia.be/

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Conference	19th World Textile Conference on Textiles at the Crossroads (AUTEX 2019)
Abbreviated title	AUTEX2019
Place	Belgium
City	Ghent
Period	11/06/19 → 15/06/19
Internet address	http://autex2019.semicomedia.be/

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