Spider silk, already known for its exceptional ... experiments to understand how stretching transforms the molecular structure of silk. The results could lead to innovations in the design of ...

Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand why it ... the team treated the fibers with different concentrations of urea, a protein-stripping chemical. 4 ...

Other molecular constituents found in spider silk ... into a fibre with a multilevel structure on the nanolevel. As the silk dope travels along the long ducts within the spider, it undergoes ...

By simulating spider silk in ... changes fiber structure and strength. To tackle this open-ended question, Keten and Graham developed a computational model to simulate the molecular dynamics ...