Spiderman Would Envy This Graphene-Enhanced Silkworm Thread
Competition for Spiderman: researchers create stronger, tougher, electricity-conducting silk by feeding graphene and carbon nanotubes to silkworms.
Competition for Spiderman: researchers create stronger, tougher, electricity-conducting silk by feeding graphene and carbon nanotubes to silkworms.
From Canada’s University of Guelph comes the interesting news that fashionistas of the future may find themselves sporting fabrics derived from fish slime. Hagfish slime, to be precise. It’s ironic that the hagfish could play a major role in an industry characterized by constant change, since this ancient eel-like species … [continued]
Bioengineered silkworms may help free the world from its dependence on petrochemicals, by providing a greener way to produce fabrics that are as strong as spider silk. A research team has successfully altered silkworms to produce a substance that has the distinct physical characteristics of spider silk, namely its extraordinarily … [continued]