Analysis of the pressure requirements for silk spinning reveals a pultrusion dominated process
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2772
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-017-00409-7
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 594
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- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Replication of natural silk production unlocks access to sustainable, high performance fibre manufacture that surpasses modern approaches to polymer spinning. Combining FE modelling and validating with two unique experimental setups, this paper demonstrates that silk is pulled, not pushed, during spinning. This has both general public and industrial impact, i.e. silk is not squeezed from the animal like toothpaste and classical artificial silk extrusion needs to be replaced by pultrusion. The work received widespread coverage in the media, such as the Times (and 10+ media outlets https://www.altmetric.com/details/26300571) and resulted in invited talks in Finland (HYBER Symposium)
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- Non-English
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