Spider silk‐inspired artificial fibers

J Li, S Li, J Huang, AQ Khan, B An, X Zhou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spider silk is a natural polymeric fiber with high tensile strength, toughness, and has distinct
thermal, optical, and biocompatible properties. The mechanical properties of spider silk are …

Bio-inspired design of multiscale structures for function integration

K Liu, L Jiang - Nano Today, 2011 - Elsevier
Multiscale structures of biological materials exhibit inherent multifunctional integration. This
special biological solution provides some inspiration for scientists and engineers to design …

Bioinspired liquid crystalline spinning enables scalable fabrication of high‐performing fibrous artificial muscles

W Hou, J Wang, J Lv - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Leveraging liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) to realize scalable fabrication of high‐
performing fibrous artificial muscles is of particular interest because these active soft …

Bioinspired “cage traps” for closed-loop lead management of perovskite solar cells under real-world contamination assessment

H Luo, P Li, J Ma, X Li, H Zhu, Y Cheng, Q Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the remarkable progress made in perovskite solar cells, great concerns regarding
potential Pb contamination risk and environmental vulnerability risks associated with …

“Genetically engineered” biofunctional triboelectric nanogenerators using recombinant spider silk

Y Zhang, Z Zhou, L Sun, Z Liu, X **a… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐powered electronics using triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) is drawing increasing
efforts and rapid advancements in eco/biocompatible energy harvesting, intelligent sensing …

The fractal network structure of silk fibroin molecules and its effect on spinning of silkworm silk

S Yang, C Zhao, Y Yang, J Ren, S Ling - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Animal silk is usually considered to exist as a solid fiber with a highly ordered structure,
formed by the hierarchical assembly starting from a single silk fibroin (SF) chain. However …

Neuron‐inspired sticky artificial spider silk for signal transmission

W Zhao, F Shao, F Sun, Z Su, S Liu, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neurons exhibit excellent signal transmission capacity, which inspire artificial neuron
materials for applications in the field of wearable electronics and soft robotics. In addition …

Tendon repair and regeneration using bioinspired fibrillation engineering that mimicked the structure and mechanics of natural tissue

Z Dong, R Peng, Y Zhang, Y Shan, W Ding, Y Liu, J Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Replicating the controlled nanofibrillar architecture of collagenous tissue represents a
promising approach in the design of tendon replacements that have tissue-mimicking …

Modular design in natural and biomimetic soft materials

AM Kushner, Z Guan - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Under eons of evolutionary and environmental pressure, biological systems have developed
strong and lightweight peptide‐based polymeric materials by using the 20 naturally …

Natural silk spinning‐inspired meso‐assembly‐processing engineering strategy for fabricating soft tissue‐mimicking biomaterials

Y Zhang, S Ye, L Cao, Z Lv, J Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural silk spinning is the strategy used by spiders and silkworms to construct their ultra‐
strong‐and‐tough silks. It can be considered as an optimized meso‐assembly processing …