Silk fibroin (SF) fiber from the silkworm Bombyx mori in the Silk II form has been used as an
excellent textile fiber for over 5000 years. Recently it has been developed for a range of …

Amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) are one of the frontier strategies to improve solubility
and dissolution rate of poorly soluble drugs and hence tackling the growing challenges in …

Spider silk is one of the strongest, most extensible and toughest biological materials known,
exceeding the properties of many engineered materials including steel. Silks feature a …

The design principles of spider dragline silk, nature's high-performance fiber, are still largely
unknown, in particular for the noncrystalline glycine-rich domains, which form the bulk of the …

The past 15 years have seen a major increase in our understanding of the structure and
dynamics of Bombyx mori silk fibroin, largely as a result of NMR studies. We now have a …

Experimental NMR techniques designed to recouple weak homonuclear and heteronuclear
dipolar coupling interactions under magic-angle spinning conditions are discussed …

Two-dimensional (2D) 13C− 13C NMR correlation spectra were collected on 13C-enriched
dragline silk fibers produced from Nephila clavipes spiders. The 2D NMR spectra were …

Spider silk is predominantly composed of structural proteins called spider fibroins or
spidroins. The major ampullate silk that forms the dragline and the cobweb's frame threads …

Spider dragline silk is Nature's high-performance protein fiber. This biomaterial has attracted
much interest from scientists in various disciplines since it has become feasible to produce …

The high-performance mechanical properties of certain spider silks can be radically altered
by the addition of water. For example, unconstrained silk fibers from the major ampullate …