Sciences : Des vers à soie transgéniques imitent les fils de l'araignée. High performance materials: Coatings. Www.amsilk.com/fileadmin/user_upload/silkfibers_whitepaper_amsilk.pdf. Oxford Silk Group : Home. Welcome The Oxford Silk Group led by Prof.
Fritz Vollrath studies the biology of silks with the goal to unravel the evolution, ecology, physics and chemistry of these fascinating materials. Illumin : article : Biomimetics: Engineering Spider Silk. Spider silk has drawn much attention from engineers in the past 20 years for its toughness and elasticity, properties which may be utilized in applications such as suspension bridge wires, bulletproof vests, and medical adhesives.
There remains, however, a mystery behind the production of spider silk. Scientists are intensively studying this process in order for engineers to replicate the silk in synthetic form. One of the first successful reproductions of spider silk was produced from genetically engineered goats. Such inventive approaches lead us closer to a mass-producible, commercializable material that may potentially be as common as ordinary silk. This paper explores the concept of biomimetics, which encompasses the study and engineering of spider silk, spiders and their production of spider silk, and the ways in which engineers approach this puzzle of spider silk reproduction.