Research ArticleAPPLIED SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity
- Dabiao Liu1,2,3,*,
- Anna Tarakanova4,
- Claire C. Hsu4,
- Miao Yu1,
- Shimin Zheng1,
- Longteng Yu1,5,
- Jie Liu6,
- Yuming He1,2,
- D. J. Dunstan3 and
- Markus J. Buehler4,*
- 1Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
- 2Hubei Key Laboratory of Engineering Structural Analysis and Safety Assessment, Wuhan 430074, China.
- 3School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
- 4Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- 5Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore.
- 6Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: dbliu{at}hust.edu.cn (D.L.); mbuehler{at}mit.edu (M.J.B.)
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Science Advances 01 Mar 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 3, eaau9183
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau9183
