Silk Polymers

Abstract

Silk: Biology, Structure, Properties, and Genetics General Properties of Some Spider Silks Silk Glands of Araneid Spiders: Selected Morphological and Physiological Aspects Molecular Map for the Silkworm: Constructing New Links between Basic and Applied Research Importance of Unique Silk Proteins to the Ecological and Evolutionary Diversity of Araneid Spiders Initial Characterization of Nephila clavipes Dragline Protein Silk and Silk Proteins from Two Aquatic Insects Synthetic and Recombinant Domains from a Midge's Giant Silk Protein: Role for Disulfide Bonds In Vivo Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Alanylglycine-Rich Artificial Proteins Design, Synthesis, and Fabrication of a Novel Self-Assembling Fibrillar Protein Optical Characterization of Silk Secretions and Fibers Structural Evolution of Genetically Engineered Silklike Protein Polymers NMR Characterization of Silk Proteins Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of the Secondary Structure of Spider Silk Fiber Crystal Structure of Silk of Bombyx mori Toward Single-Fiber Diffraction of Spider Dragline Silk from Nephila clavipes X-ray Moduli of Silk Fibers from Nephila clavipes and Bombyx mori Aspects of the Morphology of Dragline Silk of Nephila clavipes Thermal Properties of Silk Proteins in Silkworms Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Certain Spider Silks Mechanical Properties of Major Ampulate Gland Silk Fibers Extracted from Nephila clavipes Spiders Initial Degradative Changes Found in Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin Molecular Modeling Studies on Silk Peptides Approaches to Modeling and Property Prediction of Model Peptides Mechanism of Fiber Formation of Silkworm Spinning of Protein Polymer Fibers Elastomeric Network Models for the Frame and Viscid Silks from the Orb Web of the Spider Araneus diadematus Formation and Properties of Silk Thin Films Applications of Silk