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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material
New reporting explains how spiders convert a protein solution known as 'silk dope' into silk, one of the toughest natural materials known. The piece walks through the biological spinning process inside spiders' glands and nozzles, and how understanding it could inform efforts to produce synthetic silk. Readers are discussing the elegance of the mechanism and what it might mean for materials science.
Why now: Fresh coverage of the biological mechanism behind spider silk is drawing interest for its implications for synthetic materials research
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- Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material · ibobev · 77
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