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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

In situ three-dimensional spider web construction and mechanics.

Isabelle Su, Neosha Narayanan, Marcos A Logrono, Kai Guo, Ally Bisshop, Roland Mühlethaler, Tomás Saraceno, Markus J Buehler

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. An analysis of silk density in spider webs.Royal Society open science · 2025
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  7. 3D Printing of Ionogels with Complementary Functionalities Enabled by Self-Regulating Ink.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Isabelle SuLaboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Neosha NarayananLaboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Marcos A LogronoLaboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Kai GuoLaboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-2557-0061
Ally BisshopStudio Tomás Saraceno, 10317 Berlin, Germany.
Roland MühlethalerStudio Tomás Saraceno, 10317 Berlin, Germany.
Tomás SaracenoStudio Tomás Saraceno, 10317 Berlin, Germany.
Markus J BuehlerLaboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; mbuehler@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4173-9659

Funding

Models to Predict Protein Biomaterial PerformanceU01EB014976 · NIBIB · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI BUEHLER, MARKUS J., KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2012 to 2020
$5.2M
Cross-scale interactions between mineral and collagen for tendon-bone attachmentU01EB016422 · NIBIB · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GENIN, GUY M, THOMOPOULOS, STAVROS · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB014976NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB016422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spiders are nature's engineers that build lightweight and high-performance web architectures often several times their size and with very few supports; however, little is known about web mechanics and geometries throughout construction, especially for three-dimensional (3D) spider webs. In this work, we investigate the structure and mechanics for a

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalComputer SimulationImage Processing, Computer-AssistedModels, BiologicalSilkSpidersSilkart-scienceconstructionmechanicssilkspider webs

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PMID34373329
PMCPMC8379916

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