Silk reinforced with graphene or carbon nanotubes spun by spiders
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1 Laboratory of Bio-inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy. 2 Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FA, Cambridge UK. 3 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy. 4 Department of Physics and “Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces” Centre, Università di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy. 5 European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Bruno Kessler Foundation & Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (INFN-TIFPA), Trento, Italy. 6 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 7 Centre of Materials and Microsystems, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Via Santa Croce 77, 38122 Trento, Italy. 8 School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Corresponding author: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2015