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The role of hairs in the adhesion of octopus suckers: a hierarchical peeling approach.
(2020-03-20)
Organisms like the octopus or the clingfish are a precious source of inspiration for the design of innovative adhesive systems based on suction cups, but a complete mechanical description of their attachment process is ...
Topographically guided hierarchical mineralization
(Elsevier, 2021-06)
Material platforms based on interaction between organic and inorganic phases offer enormous potential to develop materials that can recreate the structural and functional properties of biological systems. However, the ...
Tidy dataset of the experimental design of the optimization of the alkali degumming process of Bombyx mori silk.
(MDPI, 2021-10)
Silk fibroin is the structural fiber of the silk filament and it is usually separated from the external protein, named sericine, by a chemical process called degumming. This process consists of an alkali bath in which the ...
How spiders hunt heavy prey: the tangle web as a pulley and spider's lifting mechanics observed and quantified in the laboratory.
(2021-02)
The spiders of Theridiidae's family display a peculiar behaviour when they hunt extremely large prey. They lift the quarry, making it unable to escape, by attaching pre-tensioned silk threads to it. In this work, we analysed ...
Mechanical Properties and Weibull Scaling Laws of Unknown Spider Silks
(MDPI, 2020-06)
Spider silks present extraordinary mechanical properties, which have attracted the attention of material scientists in recent decades. In particular, the strength and the toughness of these protein-based materials outperform ...
Properties of Biomimetic Artificial Spider Silk Fibers Tuned by PostSpin Bath Incubation
(MDPI, 2020-07)
Efficient production of artificial spider silk fibers with properties that match its natural counterpart has still not been achieved. Recently, a biomimetic process for spinning recombinant spider silk proteins (spidroins) ...