ReviewAdvanced functional materials2024
Strategies for Making High-Performance Artificial Spider Silk Fibers.
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- Liquid-liquid phase separation enables chromatography-free purification and high-performance spidroin-amyloid hybrid silk fibers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Catcher Domains as Multifunctional Fusion Modules for Soluble Expression, Covalent Coupling, and Spatial Organization of Recombinant Proteins.Small science · 2026Article
- Cryo-ET comparison of the hierarchical ultrastructure of silkworm, spider, and artificial silk fibers.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Mini-Spidroin Forms High-Performance Artificial Spider Silk via Edge-Cysteine-Locked β-Sheet Assembly.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Wrinkling-Based Patterning and Recombinant Spider Silk-Based Coating Technologies - Toward Novel Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Ecosystem services provided by spiders.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Nanostructured Protein Surfaces Inspired by Spider Silk.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Advanced Biocompatible and Biodegradable Polymers: A Review of Functionalization, Smart Systems, and Sustainable Applications.Polymers · 2025Review
- Crosslinking, salt-induced aging, and secondary structure formation in Peptide-containing coacervates inspired by spider silk.Communications chemistry · 2025Article
- Manipulating the Assembly and Architecture of Fibrillar Silk.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
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- Charting the envelope of mechanical properties of synthetic silk fibers through predictive modeling of the drawing process.Science advances · 2025Article
- Artificial Spidroin Nanogenerator-Based Articulus Wound Dressing.ChemistryOpen · 2025Article
- Exploring the functional properties ofMaterials today. Communications · 2025Article
- Post-spin Stretch Improves Mechanical Properties, Reduces Necking, and Reverts Effects of Aging in Biomimetic Artificial Spider Silk Fibers.ACS applied polymer materials · 2024Article
- Engineered Protein Fibers with Reinforced Mechanical Properties Via β-Sheet High-Order Assembly.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Functionally-Graded Serrated Fangs Allow Spiders to Mechanically Cut Silk, Carbon and Kevlar Fibers.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Effects of Mini-Spidroin Repeat Region on the Mechanical Properties of Artificial Spider Silk Fibers.ACS omega · 2024Article
- Modifying Naturally Occurring, Nonmammalian-Sourced Biopolymers for Biomedical Applications.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2024Review
- Strategies for Making High-Performance Artificial Spider Silk Fibers.Advanced functional materials · 2024Review
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Abstract
Artificial spider silk is an attractive material for many technical applications since it is a biobased fiber that can be produced under ambient conditions but still outcompetes synthetic fibers (e.g., Kevlar) in terms of toughness. Industrial use of this material requires bulk-scale production of recombinant spider silk proteins in heterologous host and replication of the pristine fiber's mechanical properties. High molecular weight spider silk proteins can be spun into fibers with impressive mechanical properties, but the production levels are too low to allow commercialization of the material. Small spider silk proteins, on the other hand, can be produced at yields that are compatible with industrial use, but the mechanical properties of such fibers need to be improved. Here, the literature on wet-spinning of artificial spider silk fibers is summarized and analyzed with a focus on mechanical performance. Furthermore, several strategies for how to improve the properties of such fibers, including optimized protein composition, smarter spinning setups, innovative protein engineering, chemical and physical crosslinking as well as the incorporation of nanomaterials in composite fibers, are outlined and discussed.
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