Toughness-enhancing metastructure in the recluse spider's looped ribbon silk
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DOI: 10.1039/c6mh00473c
Abstract: In nature's toughest materials, sacrificial bonds and hidden lengths play a key role in dissipating energy. Here, we show that the recluse spider (Loxosceles genus) spins its 50 nm-thin silk ribbons into sacrificial micro-loops, providing… read more here.
Keywords: recluse spider; looped ribbon; silk; metastructure ... See more keywords