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Silk Polymers

Year: 1993

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Silks are produced by the more than 30,000 known species of spider [1], and by most of the 113,000 species in the insect order Lepidoptera [2]. In addition, silks are produced by members of several other insect orders [3]. For every silk that has been characterized in any detail, over 1000 uncharacterized silks are known to exist

Source: ACS symposium series

DOI: 10.1021/bk-1994-0544

Authors: David Kaplan1, W. Wade Adams2, Barry Farmer3, Christopher Viney4

Language: English

Topic: Silk-based biomaterials and applications

Subfield: Biomaterials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W658049779

FWCI: 11.14

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Cited by: 233

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