The authors wish to thank Maja Vasiljevic, Arno Frank, and Charbel Sakr for his or her help in the course of the experiments performed on the synchrotron services. Their help and experience had been instrumental within the profitable completion of this work. A part of the experiments had been carried out on beamline ID13 on the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France. We acknowledge the ESRF for the availability of synchrotron radiation, and we wish to thank the beamline employees for help and help in utilizing the beamline. We acknowledge the MAX IV Laboratory for beamtime on the NanoMAX beamline beneath proposal 20230683. Analysis performed at MAX IV, a Swedish nationwide person facility, is supported by Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Analysis Council, VR) beneath contract 2018-07152, Vinnova (Swedish Governmental Company for Innovation Techniques) beneath contract 2018-04969, and Formas beneath contract 2019-02496. This analysis was funded solely by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/P33613].
Local changes in individual spider silk fibers from tubuliform and major ampullate glands of Trichonephila inaurata under varying humidity and tensile strain
