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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: MRS Bull. 2013 Feb;38(2):169–176. doi: 10.1557/mrs.2013.26

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Structure and mechanics of silk molecules, and a visualization of two universal structural domains – a hydrophobic domain “A” and a hydrophilic domain “B”. Their combination results in a nanocomposite that gives rise to the particular properties of silk fibers.