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Excellent bead-on-string silkworm silk with drop capturing abilities

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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 2, Issue 5, Pages 1230-1234

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ta13862c

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21234001]
  2. National Research Fund for Fundamental Key Project [2013CB933000, 2010CB934700]
  3. Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China [20121102110035]
  4. Graduate Student Innovation Practice Foundation of Beihang University

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A bioinspired bead-on-string silkworm silk (BBS) is fabricated using a polymer combinedwith silkwormsilk. Thus, BBS effectively modulates capillary adhesion for better water-capturing abilities, in addition to mechanical properties, compared to the initial silkworm silk. This study is significant to the design of functional materials for alternative applications.

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