Toughness-enhancing metastructure in the recluse spider's looped ribbon silk
Abstract
The recluse spider spins its ribbon-like silk into loops, a metastructure that can enhance fibre toughness.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 10.1039/c6mh00473c
Entities
People
- F. Vollrath
- Hannes C. Schniepp
- S. R. Koebley
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- College of William & Mary
- Division of Materials Research
- United States Army
- University of Kentucky
- University of Oxford