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For super-tough spider silk, just add titanium

May 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

SPIDER silk is already one of the toughest fibres known, and now it can be made even more resilient with an injection of metal. By infiltrating the protein structure of the silk, the metal makes each strand 10 times as hard to snap.

via New Scientist.

Categories: spiders

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