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The discovery of a hypersonic bandgap in spider silk could drive the design of bio-inspired and biocompatible dynamic materials.

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Figure 1: The hierarchical structure of spider silk, from macroscale webs to nanoconfined fibrils.
Figure 2: A schematic representation of the importance of pre-strain, mechanical anisotropy and nonlocal nonlinearity in varying the hypersonic phononic tunable in spider silk.

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