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Spider silk could lead to the making of strong material

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capgirl

posted on Mar, 16 2010 @ 12:18 PM
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Researchers found that spider silk employs a unique crystal structure that converts an otherwise weak material into one stronger and less brittle than steel or ceramics.



Clothes made out of spider silk. Maybe nylon rope in parachutes will be replaced with spider silk? I think this is pretty interesting.


RuneSpider

posted on Mar, 16 2010 @ 12:21 PM
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Hasn't this already been known?

I'm not sure what different from the earlier studies.



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