AUTHOR=Riekel Christian , Burghammer Manfred , Rosenthal Martin 

TITLE=Nanoscale X-Ray Diffraction of Silk Fibers

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2019.00315

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2019.00315

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=<p>This report focuses on current possibilities and perspectives of scanning X-ray nanodiffraction for probing nanoscale heterogeneities in silk fibers such as nanofibrils, skin-core morphologies, nanocrystalline inclusions and fine fibers down to submicron diameters.</p>