Figure 1 | Scientific Reports

Figure 1

From: Stress-induced long-range ordering in spider silk

Figure 1

Scheme to illustrate the hypothesis of stress-induced order. Tensile loading can lead to ordering of the stiffer (blue) and softer (orange) components in a two-component system. The material builds up periodic density fluctuations featuring more soft regions with fewer stiffer particles (arrows), resulting in long-range order along the loading direction at a length scale larger than the stiffer components’ dimension.

Back to article page