It is highly desirable to develop fiber materials with high strength and toughness while increasing fiber strength always results in a decrease in toughness.Spider silk is a natural fiber material with an excellent co...It is highly desirable to develop fiber materials with high strength and toughness while increasing fiber strength always results in a decrease in toughness.Spider silk is a natural fiber material with an excellent combination of high strength and toughness,which is produced from the spinning dope solution by gelation and drawing spinning process.This encourages people to prepare artificial fibers by mimicking the material,structure,and spinning of natural spider silk.In this review,we first summarized the preparation of artificial spider silk prepared via such a gelation process from different types of materials,including nonrecombinant proteins,recombinant proteins,polypeptides,synthetic polymers,and polymer nanocomposites.In addition,different spinning approaches for spinning artificial spider silk are also summarized.In the third section,some novel application scenarios of the artificial spider silk were summarized,such as artificial muscles,sensing,and smart fibers.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2019YFE0119600,2022YFB3807103)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52090034,52225306,51973093,and 51773094)+4 种基金Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter,Nankai University(No.63181206)the National Special Support Plan for High-Level Talents People(No.C041800902)the Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Tianjin(No.18JCJQJC46600)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.63171219)the Operation Huiyan(No.62502510601).
文摘It is highly desirable to develop fiber materials with high strength and toughness while increasing fiber strength always results in a decrease in toughness.Spider silk is a natural fiber material with an excellent combination of high strength and toughness,which is produced from the spinning dope solution by gelation and drawing spinning process.This encourages people to prepare artificial fibers by mimicking the material,structure,and spinning of natural spider silk.In this review,we first summarized the preparation of artificial spider silk prepared via such a gelation process from different types of materials,including nonrecombinant proteins,recombinant proteins,polypeptides,synthetic polymers,and polymer nanocomposites.In addition,different spinning approaches for spinning artificial spider silk are also summarized.In the third section,some novel application scenarios of the artificial spider silk were summarized,such as artificial muscles,sensing,and smart fibers.
