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Spider silk. (A) A spider web attached to the branches of an outdoor plant; (B) Schematic of the hierarchical structure of spider silk; (C) A spider silk specimen mounted on a horizontal mechanical (tensile) tester available in the authors’ laboratory. Of note, the gap in the middle of a single strand silk suggests that the specimen comprises more than two strands.
