Artículo
Spider silk gut: Development and characterization of a novel strong spider silk fiber
Autor/es | Jiang, P.
Marí-Buyé, N. Madurga, Rodrigo Arroyo-Hernández, M. Solanas, C. Gañán-Calvo, Alfonso M. Daza, Rafael Plaza, Gustavo R. Guinea, Gustavo V. |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Aeroespacial y Mecánica de Fluidos |
Fecha de publicación | 2014 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-11-10 |
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Resumen | Spider silk fibers were produced through an alternative processing route that differs widely from natural spinning. The process follows a procedure traditionally used to obtain fibers directly from the glands of silkworms ... Spider silk fibers were produced through an alternative processing route that differs widely from natural spinning. The process follows a procedure traditionally used to obtain fibers directly from the glands of silkworms and requires exposure to an acid environment and subsequent stretching. The microstructure and mechanical behavior of the so-called spider silk gut fibers can be tailored to concur with those observed in naturally spun spider silk, except for effects related with the much larger cross-sectional area of the former. In particular spider silk gut has a proper ground state to which the material can revert independently from its previous loading history by supercontraction. A larger cross-sectional area implies that spider silk gut outperforms the natural material in terms of the loads that the fiber can sustain. This property suggests that it could substitute conventional spider silk fibers in some intended uses, such as sutures and scaffolds in tissue engineering. |
Identificador del proyecto | MAT2012-38412-C02-01
31160420 31060282 30760041 20133BCB23022 |
Cita | Jiang, P., Marí-Buyé, N., Madurga, R., Arroyo-Hernández, M., Solanas, C., Gañán-Calvo, A.M.,...,Guinea, G.V. (2014). Spider silk gut: Development and characterization of a novel strong spider silk fiber. Scientific Reports, 4 (7326), 1-7. |
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