Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Artificial spider silk from ion-doped and twisted core-sheath hydrogel fibres

  • Yuanyuan Dou,
  • Zhen-Pei Wang,
  • Wenqian He,
  • Tianjiao Jia,
  • Zhuangjian Liu,
  • Pingchuan Sun,
  • Kai Wen,
  • Enlai Gao,
  • Xiang Zhou,
  • Xiaoyu Hu,
  • Jingjing Li,
  • Shaoli Fang,
  • Dong Qian,
  • Zunfeng Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13257-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Different models are believed to be the reason for the superior mechanical properties of spider silk. Here, the authors prepare artificial spider silk by water-evaporation-induced self-assembly of a hydrogel fibre made from polyacrylic acid and silica nanoparticles.