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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 ...
Doubling the Mechanical Properties of Spider Silk by C(60)Supersonic Molecular Beam Epitaxy
(Frontiers, 2020-06-24)
Spider silk is one of the most fascinating natural materials, owing to its outstanding mechanical properties. In fact, it is able to combine usually self-excluding properties, like strength and toughness that synthetic ...
Strong and Tough Silk for Resilient Attachment Discs: The Mechanical Properties of Piriform Silk in the SpiderCupiennius salei(Keyserling, 1877)
(Frontiers, 2020-06-10)
Spiders are able to produce different types of silk with different mechanical and biological properties. Piriform silk is produced to secure spiders and their webs to surfaces by using a nano-fibril network embedded in a ...