- Abstract:
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From the spider’s perspective, silk is not only a building material but also a safety net, a weapon and a sensory organ to detect the presence of prey on its web. For scientists, dragline silk - directly extracted from spiders - is a tough, biodegradable and biocompatible optical fibre. These protein optical threads are made up of millions of repetitive protein sequences and domains that, unlike its silica counterpart, can interact with a multitude of chemical sp...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted manuscript
- Publisher:
- Infoscience Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-17
- Pubs id:
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pubs:661838
- URN:
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uri:fb7c90b9-bfc9-48d3-afab-bb8e1862a0a0
- UUID:
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uuid:fb7c90b9-bfc9-48d3-afab-bb8e1862a0a0
- Local pid:
- pubs:661838
- Copyright holder:
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 EPFL tous droits réservés
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From spider webs to a fibre-optic chemical sensor
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