Spider webs don’t rot easily and scientists may have figured out why0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 31, 2019
Bacteria key to decomposition can’t get at the silk’s nitrogen, a nutrient needed for growth
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Spider silk, wood combination replicates material advantages of plastic0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 18, 2019
A new material created by researchers has qualities that are similar to those of plastic, but because it is biodegradable, the new material is more eco-friendly.
Spider Silk Could Improve Organoids for Drug Development0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 21, 2019
The Stockholm-based organoids company BioLamina has teamed up with the recombinant spider silk Stockholm startup Spiber Technologies to develop organoids that are more accurate tissue models than those used currently.
Black widow spiders could teach nanomaterial experts a thing or two0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 26, 2018
Scientists are finally unspooling how spider silk works.
Researchers use lasers to weld spider silk to kevlar0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 26, 2017
The silk proteins themselves are involved in locally increasing the laser power.
Sound-proof metamaterial inspired by spider webs1
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 8, 2016
By modeling different versions of the new spider-web-inspired acoustic metamaterial, the researchers demonstrated that the new design is more efficient at inhibiting low-frequency sound and is more easily tuned to different frequencies than other sound-controlling materials.
Scientists create novel ‘liquid wire’ material inspired by spiders’ capture silk0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 16, 2016
Scientists have invented a type of wire that will never sag no matter how much it will stretch, similar to how a spider’s silk never will
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