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Biotechnology of silk [electronic resource] / Tetsuo Asakura, Thomas Miller, editors.

This book is a snapshot of the current state of the art of research and development on the properties and characteristics of silk and their use in medicine and industry. The field encompasses backyard silk production from ancient time to industrial methods in the modern era and includes an example o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Asakura, Tetsuo, Miller, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, ©2014.
Series:Biologically-inspired systems.
Subjects:
Silk.
Silk industry.
Table of Contents:
  • Wild Silk Production to Support Farmers Excluded from Protected Areas in Madagascar / Robert S. Weber and Catherine L. Craig
  • Evolutionary Divergence of Lepidopteran and Trichopteran Fibroins / Kenji Yukuhiro, Hideki Sezutsu and Naoyuki Yonemura
  • The Silk I and Lamella Structures of (Ala-Gly)15 as the Model of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin Studied with Solid State NMR / Tetsuo Asakura, Yu Suzuki and Yasumoto Nakazawa
  • Application of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin as a Biomaterial for Vascular Grafts / Derya Aytemiz and Tetsuo Asakura
  • Evolution and Application of Coiled Coil Silks from Insects / Tsunenori Kameda, Andrew A. Walker and Tara D. Sutherland
  • Characterization of Underwater Silk Proteins from Caddisfly Larva, Stenopsyche marmorata / Kousaku Ohkawa, Takaomi Nomura, Ryoichi Arai, Koji Abe, Masuhiro Tsukada and Kimio Hirabayashi
  • Atomic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Silk from Spider Draglines, Capture-Web Spirals, and Silkworms / Helen Greenwood Hansma
  • Modular Spider Silk Fibers: Defining New Modules and Optimizing Fiber Properties / Michael B. Hinman, Florence Teulé, David Perry, Bo An, Sherry Adrianos, Amy Albertson and Randy Lewis
  • How to Pass the Gap
  • Functional Morphology and Biomechanics of Spider Bridging Threads / Jonas O. Wolff, Jutta M. Schneider and Stanislav N. Gorb
  • The Power of Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins / Stefanie Wohlrab, Christopher Thamm and Thomas Scheibel
  • Prey Capture Adhesives Produced by Orb-Weaving Spiders / Vasav Sahni, Ali Dhinojwala, Brent D. Opell and Todd A. Blackledge
  • Silk and Web Synergy: The Merging of Material and Structural Performance / Steven W. Cranford, Nicola M. Pugno and Markus J. Buehler.

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