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It is remarkable that so many different silk fibroin compositions are found in nature that are converted to high performance fibers by their respective organisms. In contrast, we note that there are a relatively small number of synthetic polymers that have led to commercial man-made fibers. In fact, the development of man-made fibers in the late nineteenth century was motivated by the desire to mimic silk, the only natural, continuous filament then available.
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Hudson, S.M. (1997). The Spinning of Silk-like Proteins Into Fibers. In: McGrath, K., Kaplan, D. (eds) Protein-Based Materials. Bioengineering of Materials. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4094-5_10
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