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bionic spider silk

10/02/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Bionic spider silk: Researchers have developed a super strong “biocomposite” with the potential to revolutionize numerous industries

Spider webs are known to be among the strongest natural materials known to man. For example, the webs of a type of spider found in Papua New Guinea are so strong that fishermen use them as handheld fishing nets. Additionally, in 2010, scientists discovered that the web of a species of orb weaver in Madagascar […]

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