Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk

By Fritz Vollrath, D. Knight. Nature, 2001

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Cutting edge development on graphene derivatives modified by liquid crystal and CdS/TiO2 hybrid matrix: optoelectronics and biotechnological aspects (2020, background): “form less defective unspun dope via negligible reorientation and less processing energy of the aligned molecule.([348]) Thus, the alignment property of LC is”
Formation of silk fibroin nanoparticles in water-miscible organic solvent and their characterization (2007, background): “Silk fibre formation involves shear and elongational stress acting on the fibroin solution in the gland, causing fibroin in solution to crystallize ( Vollrath & Knight, 2001 ).”
Nature’s hierarchical materials (2007, background): “Spider silk is among the toughest polymer filaments known to date [151,152].”
Silk fibroin biomaterials for tissue regenerations. (2013, background): “The chain conformation in amorphous blocks is random coil, which gives elasticity to silk [25,26].”