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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4902942
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- DST India through Ramanujan fellowship
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We demonstrate that spider draglines exhibit a fatigueless response in extreme cyclic torsion up to its breaking limit. The well defined Raman bands at 1095 and 1245 cm(-1) shifted linearly towards lower wavenumbers versus increasing twist in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions. Under thousands of continuous loading cycles of twist strain approaching its breaking limit, all the Raman bands were preserved and the characteristic Raman peak shifts were found to be reversible. Besides, nanoscale surface profile of the worked silk appeared as good as the pristine silk. This unique fatigueless twist response of draglines, facilitated by reversible deformation of protein molecules, could find applications in durable miniatured devices. (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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