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...Brent D. Opell; Dharamdeep Jain; Ali Dhinojwala; Todd A. Blackledge ABSTRACT Orb-weaving spiders use adhesive threads to delay the escape of insects from their webs until the spiders can locate and subdue the insects. These viscous threads are spun as paired flagelliform axial fibers coated...

...Peter H. Niewiarowski; Alyssa Y. Stark; Ali Dhinojwala ABSTRACT The natural clinging ability of geckos has inspired hundreds of studies seeking design principles that could be applied to creating synthetic adhesives with the same performance capabilities as the gecko: adhesives that use no glue...

...-soluble protein adhesive and the release of stored strain energy within the coiled thread. Here we show that, as predicted by this hypothesis, unraveling can be initiated by a protease under conditions in which unraveling does not normally occur. We also demonstrate, using high resolution scanning...

...Nick Aldred; Neeraj V. Gohad; Luigi Petrone; Beatriz Orihuela; Bo Liedberg; Thomas Ederth; Andrew Mount; Dan Rittschof; Anthony S. Clare SUMMARY Biological adhesives are materials of particular interest in the fields of bio-inspired technology and antifouling research. The adhesive of adult...