Abstract
The outstanding mechanical properties of spider silk have been widely studied, but measuring its thermal transport properties is actually a challenge, since the silk fibers are very thin (few micrometers in diameter). Recently, an exceptionally high thermal diffusivity value for the dragline silk has been reported, 70mm2s−1, similar to the best thermal conducting metals. In this work, by means of a lock-in thermography setup specially designed to measure thermal diffusivity of very thin filaments, we have measured the thermal diffusivity of spider dragline silk. The value we have obtained, 0.20±0.01mm2s−1, is 400 times lower than the previously reported result and falls within the typical diffusivity range of biomaterials (0.1–0.3mm2s−1).
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