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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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
Proteins' Web of Intrigue An investigative look into what makes spider silk so strong.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Spinning Out Stronger Nanotubes Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strength carbon nanotube fibers.  |
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.  |
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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...  |
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.  |
Chemistry World March 2008 Maria Burke |
Green Couture Synthetic fibers are back in fashion after an ecological makeover.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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'.  |