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The silk of the humble spider has some pretty impressive properties. It’s one of the sturdiest materials found in nature, stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar. It can be stretched several times its length before it breaks. For these reasons, replicating spider silk in the lab has been a bit of an obsession among materials scientists for decades.
Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new material that mimics spider silk’s strength, stretchiness and energy-absorbing capacity. This material offers the possibility of improving on products from bike helmets to parachutes to bulletproof jackets to airplane wings. Perhaps its most impressive property? It’s 98 percent water
New Artificial Spider Silk: Stronger Than Steel and 98 Percent Water | Innovation | Smithsonian
Did you know spiders have 48 knees ? Yup, count them…eight legs with six joints on each.
Here's one of our little heroes in action...
Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new material that mimics spider silk’s strength, stretchiness and energy-absorbing capacity. This material offers the possibility of improving on products from bike helmets to parachutes to bulletproof jackets to airplane wings. Perhaps its most impressive property? It’s 98 percent water
New Artificial Spider Silk: Stronger Than Steel and 98 Percent Water | Innovation | Smithsonian
Did you know spiders have 48 knees ? Yup, count them…eight legs with six joints on each.
Here's one of our little heroes in action...
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