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Nanotech spiders: On track with molecular robotics

News: Nanotechnology    May 14, 2010
You have to love it when the lead scientists on a project say: “You could imagine the spider carrying a drug and bonding to a two-dimensional surface like a cell membrane, finding the receptors and, depending on the local environment,” adds Yan, “triggering the activation of this drug.” Such applications, while intriguing, are decades or [...]
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New study: Why silk is so strong

News: Nanotechnology    March 15, 2010
It’s been said for quite some time that silks, especially spider silks, are pound-for-pound stronger than steel. Silk is also famously flexible. Now there is a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, USA) that explains how this strength is the product of something that shouldn’t be that strong – simple hydrogen bonds [...]
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