Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...

We could examine how drawing relates to the silk’s mechanical properties.” “Spiders perform the drawing process naturally,” said Northwestern Jacob Graham, the study’s first author. “When they spin ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Find out how spider silk's unique properties can be replicated for practical applications. Read the full research here ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...