Atomic force microscopy of orb-spider-web-silks to measure surface nanostructuring and evaluate silk fibers per strand

D. M. Kane; N. Naidoo; G. R. Staib

doi:10.1063/1.3490220

Atomic force microscopy of orb-spider-web-silks to measure surface nanostructuring and evaluate silk fibers per strand

D. M. Kane, N. Naidoo, G. R. Staib

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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) study is used to measure the surface topology and roughness of radial and capture spider silks on the micro- and nanoscale. This is done for silks of the orb weaver spider Argiope keyserlingi. Capture silk has a surface roughness that is five times less than that for radial silk. The capture silk has an equivalent flatness of λ/100 (5-6 nm deep surface features) as an optical surface. This is equivalent to a very highly polished optical surface. AFM does show the number of silk fibers that make up a silk thread but geometric distortion occurs during sample preparation. This prevented AFM from accurately measuring the silk topology on the microscale in this study.

Original language	English
Article number	073509
Pages (from-to)	073509-1-073509-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	108
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3490220
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2010

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