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Structural and wetting properties of nature's finest silks (order Embioptera)

Insects from the order Embioptera (webspinners) spin silk fibres which are less than 200 nm in diameter. In this work, we characterized and compared the diameters of single silk fibres from nine species—Antipaluria urichi, Pararhagadochir trinitatis, Saussurembia calypso, Diradius vandykei, Aposthon...

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Autores principales: Stokes, Grace Y., DiCicco, Evangelea N., Moore, Trevor J., Cheng, Vivian C., Wheeler, Kira Y., Soghigian, John, Barber, Richard P., Edgerly, Janice S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30839723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180893