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Unraveling Silks’ Secrets For Stronger Synthetic Materials (redOrbit)

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Image 2: Structure of silk. The yellowish regions are the key cross-linking domains in silk, beta-sheet crystals. Spider web photograph courtesy Nicolas Demars. Figure courtesy M. BuehlerImage 3: Breaking mechanisms of silk nanocrystals. The left part of the image shows a small crystal, which fails gracefully as a strand is being pulled out. The larger crystal on the right fails catastrophically ...

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