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The dragline silk spun by spiders exhibits unusual tensile strength and the energy required to break it can be higher than that of Kevlar. In his Perspective, Tirrell comments on a research report in the same issue by Simmons et al . ( p. 84 ) that elucidates some of the structural properties that give spider silk its impressive characteristics.
David A. Tirrell (Fri,) studied this question.