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Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Hayley Birch
How spider silk soaks up water Spider silk may change its structure when it gets wet, enhancing its ability to capture water from the air, a new study by Chinese scientists suggests mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 7, 2014
Jennifer Newton
Yongmei Zheng: Spider silk and butterfly wings Research in the Zheng group looks at biological and bioinspired surfaces with wettability functions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 23, 2009
Nina Notman
Metal toughens up spider silk Spider silk, already one of the strongest fibres known, can be made even stronger by infusing metals into its protein structure, scientists in Germany say. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 12, 2010
Phillip Broadwith
Tying up spider silk's loose ends The way spider silk proteins can be stored as a fluid but spun instantly into fibres is all down to their end parts, European scientists have discovered. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 11, 2015
Matthew Gunther
Adaptive spider glue remains sticky come rain or shine A salt -- protein mixture present in glue droplets along each thread may allow spiders to tune the stickiness of their webbing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 6, 2012
Andy Extance
'Spider threads' bring great self-healing power US and Hong Kong scientists have invented a material that can heal itself from millimeter-scale cracks when heated, using spider-silk inspired plastic threads. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 1, 2012
Steve Down
The world's strongest fibers The toughest polymer yarn of all time has been made by mixing a polymer with sheets of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes during spinning. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 5, 2011
Jon Cartright
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 25, 2013
James Urquhart
Filler to patch up ancient silk delicates Chinese researchers have found a way to restore and strengthen ancient, fragile silk fabrics using an enzyme-mediated reaction to fill in tiny cracks in the fibers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 11, 2010
Mike Brown
Make some noise for smart fibres Fibres made of multiple materials could function as communication transceivers, emitting an electrical response or sound when the fibres are put under stress or subject to acoustic waves of a range of frequencies, say researchers in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 15, 2011
Jon Cartwright
Worms' diet the key to coloured silk Scientists in Singapore have found out how to produce coloured silk based on the diet fed to silkworms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
Issue 64
David Bradley
Proteins' Web of Intrigue An investigative look into what makes spider silk so strong. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 13, 2011
Holly Sheahan
Probes Inspired by Butterflies Inspired by the feeding tube of butterflies, US scientists have made a flexible and porous artificial proboscis that could be used to collect tiny liquid samples. The probe can be operated remotely to collect hazardous liquids. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 11, 2013
Laura Howes
Nanotube fiber production in a spin No, that light bulb isn't floating in thin air, it's suspended by two 24 m thick fibers spun from carbon nanotubes. An international collaboration led by Matteo Pasquali, at Rice University in the US, has developed a method of manufacturing high-performance CNT fibers using wet spinning. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
June 18, 2003
Practical nanotube fiber near Spider silk, a product of 400 million years of evolution, stops insects on the wing because it is five times tougher than steel. Scientists working with carbon nanotubes are looking to surpass the strength of spider line. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 23, 2015
David Bradley
Super-elastic wire stretches without losing power A conducting wire that can be stretched to 14 times its original length has been developed by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas, US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 23, 2015
Sonja Hampel
Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 19, 2007
Lewis Brindley
Spinning Out Stronger Nanotubes Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strength carbon nanotube fibers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 16, 2015
Emma Stephen
Caddisfly silk gets shocked into self-recovery The tough, extendable, energy-dissipating properties of the casemaker caddisfly's adhesive silk are down to a self-recovering network of calcium cross links, new research shows. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
November 2000
Fogwater Collector 100 ultraviolet-resistant polypropylene nets, each 13 feet high by 40 feet long, are stretched on poles at a site 4 miles from the coast. Positioned at right angles to prevailing winds, the nets trap droplets of water from the fog that passes through... mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 28, 2011
James Urquhart
New Spin on Spider Silk Golden orb spiders ward off ant invasion by spinning silk that contains a chemical deterrent, according to a study by Singaporean and Australian researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2008
Maria Burke
Green Couture Synthetic fibers are back in fashion after an ecological makeover. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 22, 2011
Steve Down
Growing super long fibres in seaweed jackets Scientists in Japan have made extremely long supramolecular fibres of a lipid-type compound by self-assembling it in microfluidic channels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 20, 2014
Andy Extance
Cheap polymers twist into superhuman muscles If nylon and polyethylene are twisted into coils, they can make artificial muscles that can lift loads over 100 times heavier than human muscle. They could replace motors in many uses, particularly robotics. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 11, 2012
Phillip Broadwith
Seeing the helix of DNA Italian scientists have developed a technique to improve the contrast of electron microscopy images of DNA fibers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 14, 2006
Jon Evans
Successful Collagen Synthesis Comes to a Sticky End U.S. chemists have sythesised collagen fibers with dimensions similar to the natural protein, leading the researchers to predict the advent of the `bionic man'. mark for My Articles similar articles