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Brillouin Spectroscopy: Using an old technique to get a new picture of spider webs

News: Synthetic Biology    February 20, 2013
Science has known for a long time that spider silk is one of nature’s most fantastic materials – five times stronger than steel, flexible, stretchable to a third of its length, chemically stable. Because of these properties, scientists have studied spider silk for decades and you’d think by now there would be no secrets left. [...]
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Learning the secrets of spider silk storage and spinning

News: Nanotechnology    May 13, 2010
Science has been trying to learn the secrets of spider silk – and imitate it – for a long time. It’s a worthy goal. Nothing else, artificial or natural, is quite like it. It has five times the tensile strength of steel and triple the strength of the best synthetic fibers. Scientists are beginning to [...]
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