Spider silk thread as a fiber optic chemical sensor
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Spider silk thread as a fiber optic chemical sensor
Several research teams have recently highlighted how silk can be used as an optical material. Through a regeneration process, it is possible to obtain silk films made from fibers of silk cocoons, by casting a silk fibron solution on an appropriate surface. These transparent films have been used tomake optical devices such as diffraction gratings, phase masks, and photonic crystal lattices.1 Our...
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عنوان ژورنال: SPIE Newsroom
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1818-2259
DOI: 10.1117/2.1201603.006394