Sentences with phrase «by spider silk»

Sun decided to study a fraction of the peptide sequence that gave the glue its adhesive ability by attaching a heterogeneous hydrophilic peptide segment inspired by spider silk proteins.

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Although it sounds like a sci - fi dream wrapped in an Onion article, Bolt Threads — a San Francisco - based startup that wants to disrupt the retail industry by mass - producing spider silk — is very much a real thing.

This particular silk, used by spiders to lower themselves like mini mountain climbers, is noted for its durability and toughness, making it useful as a possible biodegradable material for clothing.

«I was intrigued by the remarkable mechanical properties of these fibres spun by worms and spiders,» Kaplan says of what made him investigate silk in 1989.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Consider: The spider anchors its web to a wall, a ceiling, or a similar surface by weaving highly adhesive patches of silk called scaffolding discs, which are strong enough to withstand the impact of flying prey.

The spider attaches a line of silk to the tree branch she is standing on, by the side of a river, and bungee - jumps into space.

Lacking these bristles, the wolf spider instead glues sand particles together by connecting the grains with fine silk threads.

Inspired by the strange properties of spider silk, researchers have created «liquid wires» that could be used in soft robotics

Stephen Fossey, one of the researchers, explains that Kevlar, the DuPont fibre, «can elongate up to 4 per cent before breaking, while spider silks can stretch by as much as 15 per cent before breaking».

To mimic the large societies of ants, the ant - spider travels in groups and lives in silken apartment complexes, with hundreds of individuals staying in nests connected by silk.

Based mainly on fossil evidence and specimens preserved in amber, biologists concluded long ago that spiders descended from a many - legged, scorpionlike ancestor that by 380 million years ago had a long tail but looked quite spiderlike and may even have had silk glands.

Research led by Cristina Tuni of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in Germany now shows that male hunting spiders wrap morsels of food in their silk and offer these as gifts to prospective mates.

Cheryl Hayashi, a spider silk geneticist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, is among the researchers thrilled by what she is learning about the molecular diversity of these substances.

So our study looked at whether spider silk's properties could be «enhanced» by artificially incorporating various different nanomaterials into the silk's biological protein structures,» said Pugno.

The silk — produced naturally by the spiders, incorporating graphene and carbon nanotubes (rolled up graphene sheets) introduced in their environment — had enhanced mechanical properties of up to three times the strength and ten times the toughness of the unmodified silks.

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These enviable features have made spider silk the frequent target of biomimetic efforts by scientists who hope to produce a synthetic version in large enough quantities for applications in industry, military technology (it's three times tougher than Kevlar), and medicine (as a super-strong, biodegradable suture material, for example).

silk A fine, strong, soft fiber spun by a range of animals, such as silkworms and many other caterpillars, weaver ants, caddis flies and spiders.

By varying the conditions under which the spiders were kept (different reeling speeds, starvation periods), the species or the spiders inside the same species, it has been seen that dragline silk has different mechanical properties and varies on an interspecific, intraspecific and intra-individual level [23].

Normal spider silk, by comparison, has a fracture strength of around 1.5 GPa and a toughness modulus of around 150 J / g.

However, by stacking large numbers of these sheets, spider silk fails «gracefully», with the hydrogen bonds breaking one by one under an external force.

One final comment, I notice that one of the authors is Nicola Pugno who was last mentioned here in an August 30, 2017 posting titled: Making spider silk stronger by feeding graphene and carbon nanotubes to spiders.

These yarns are even stronger than the silks spun by the technology's inspiration, real - life spiders.

Luxury Brands Adopt Sustainability with Environmentally - Friendly Biotextiles (South China Morning Post) «Stella McCartney has produced a couple of garments made from a silk inspired by spider web DNA, and Chanel has looked at the possibilities of 3D printing fabrics.

You can feel wild by watching a spider, legs tensed against silk across your bathroom window.

Described in a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by an international team of researchers, the new creature, named Chimerarachne yingi, shares traits with a modern spider, like fangs, male pedipalps, four walking legs and silk - producing spinnerets.