Silk Polymers

Silk: Biology, Structure, Properties, and Genetics; General Properties of Some Spider Silks; Silk Glands of Araneid Spiders: Selected Morphological and Physiological Aspects; Molecular Map for the Silkworm: Constructing New Links between Basic and Applied Research; Importance of Unique Silk Proteins to the Ecological and Evolutionary Diversity of Araneid Spiders; Initial Characterization of Nephila clavipes Dragline Protein; Silk and Silk Proteins from Two Aquatic Insects; Synthetic and Recombinant Domains from a Midge's Giant Silk Protein: Role for Disulfide Bonds; In Vivo Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Alanylglycine-Rich Artificial Proteins; Design, Synthesis, and Fabrication of a Novel Self-Assembling Fibrillar Protein; Optical Characterization of Silk Secretions and Fibers; Structural Evolution of Genetically Engineered Silklike Protein Polymers; NMR Characterization of Silk Proteins; Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of the Secondary Structure of Spider Silk Fiber; Crystal Structure of Silk of Bombyx mori; Toward Single-Fiber Diffraction of Spider Dragline Silk from Nephila clavipes; X-ray Moduli of Silk Fibers from Nephila clavipes and Bombyx mori; Aspects of the Morphology of Dragline Silk of Nephila clavipes; Thermal Properties of Silk Proteins in Silkworms; Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Certain Spider Silks; Mechanical Properties of Major Ampulate Gland Silk Fibers Extracted from Nephila clavipes Spiders; Initial Degradative Changes Found in Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin; Molecular Modeling Studies on Silk Peptides; Approaches to Modeling and Property Prediction of Model Peptides; Mechanism of Fiber Formation of Silkworm; Spinning of Protein Polymer Fibers; Elastomeric Network Models for the Frame and Viscid Silks from the Orb Web of the Spider Araneus diadematus; Formation and Properties of Silk Thin Films; Applications of Silk