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LeopoldS

Brown Recluse Spider's Silk Is Strong and Really Strange - Wired Science - 0 views

www.wired.com/...brown-recluse-silk

Bio biomimetic silk

shared by LeopoldS on 12 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 12 Oct 13
     
    Fascinating! New type of spider silk?
Beniamino Abis

Spider Silk Grabs Electrically Charged Insects in Midair - 1 views

news.sciencemag.org/...shot-gotcha-spider-silk-g.html

BIO science

shared by Beniamino Abis on 04 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Beniamino Abis on 04 Jul 13
     
    Certain strands of spider silk are attracted to statically charged objects, according to a new study, enhancing an arachnid's ability to catch prey.
johannessimon81

Synthetic Spider Silk Capsules Assemble Themselves - 1 views

www.wired.com/...synthetic-spider-silk

bio

shared by johannessimon81 on 23 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 23 Sep 13
     
    Get well, Tom! We urgently need you back.
  • Tom Gheysens on 24 Sep 13
     
    thanx it is strange, they keep saying they have this synthetic spider silk but there is absolutely no mention of the actual properties of the thing...for a few years now... And I remember we have tested some, way back and it was really bad.
johannessimon81

Brown Recluse Spider's Silk Is Strong and Really Strange - 2 views

www.wired.com/...brown-recluse-silk

bio

shared by johannessimon81 on 08 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 08 Oct 13
     
    Instead of round silk threads this spider produces flat ribbons 40-80 nm in thickness. Still the material is as strong as Kevlar and much more elastic.
LeopoldS

pH-Dependent Dimerization and Salt-Dependent Stabilization of the N-terminal Domain of ... - 3 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...abstract

shared by LeopoldS on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 22 Aug 11
     
    how the spider silk gets so strong ...
  • jmlloren on 24 Aug 11
     
    C'mon Leopold! It is obvious from the title.
  • LeopoldS on 27 Aug 11
     
    :-)
Athanasia Nikolaou

Silk protein and chloroplasts for the synthetic leaf - 2 views

www.iflscience.com/...synthetic-leaf-produces-oxygen

BIO science engineering silk

shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 05 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 05 Aug 14
     
    Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab. Not as good as it sounds as it does not fully mimic the photosynthesis equation (spare C, H atoms)
  • Thijs Versloot on 06 Aug 14
     
    Interesting stuff and I guess it does not need to fully mimic photosynthesis in the end. As long as oxygen can be produced from CO2 and water that would be great enough. Though the carbon has to be deposited somewhere (in some form) and I wonder how one could extract this efficiently. Maybe it can even serve some purpose (as the sugars are doing for the plant)
Tom Gheysens

Silk Pavilion / MIT Media Lab - 2 views

www.archdaily.com/...silk-pavilion-mit-media-lab

BIO science

shared by Tom Gheysens on 17 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Tom Gheysens on 17 Jun 13
     
    biological swarm approach to 3-D printing
LeopoldS

Directed Growth of Silk Nanofibrils on Graphene and Their Hybrid Nanocomposites - ACS M... - 0 views

pubs.acs.org/...mz400639y

BIO sensors nanoengineering silk

shared by LeopoldS on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 17 Jan 14
     
    of interest to Tom's project?
Dario Izzo

Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth | Journal of The Royal Society Interface - 3 views

rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/...20141326

BIO

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  • LeopoldS on 18 Feb 15
     
    stronger than steel - small teeth of snail like creature ...
  • Ma Ru on 19 Feb 15
     
    According to a BBC news article it's actually stronger than Kevlar...
  • Dario Izzo on 22 Mar 15
     
    The spider silk is no longer the toughest natural material around.
LeopoldS

Spider silk self-assembly via modular liquid-liquid phase separation and nanofibrillati... - 0 views

advances.sciencemag.org/...eabb6030

spider silk BIO

shared by LeopoldS on 06 Nov 20 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Nov 20
     
    beautiful research, and fascinating how fast these polymers seem to self assemble at exit ...
LeopoldS

Crypto-Gram: October 15, 2013 - 2 views

www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1310.html

security internet

shared by LeopoldS on 07 Nov 13 - No Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Nov 13
     
    interesting blog entry on TOR and the NSA
  • Nicholas Lan on 08 Nov 13
     
    on a somewhat related note. court document from the fbi agent that was chasing that silk road guy a friend sent me the other week. an interesting read if only because i found the content quite unexpected e.g. 2 pages of login instructions http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
pacome delva

Malagasy Spiders Spin the World's Toughest Biological Material - ScienceNOW - 0 views

news.sciencemag.org/...y-spiders-spin-the-worlds.html

bio biomaterials spiders

shared by pacome delva on 04 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Like an engineer accounting for a skyscraper swaying in the wind, Madagascar's Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) spins enormous, river-spanning webs that stretch and contract as the trees to which they're anchored bend this way and that. A new study finds that this spider's silk is the toughest biomaterial yet discovered.
  • The spiders' colossal orb webs can span up to 2.8 square meters and are anchored by threads as long as 25 meters.
LeopoldS

Biophysical Journal - Silk Fiber Mechanics from Multiscale Force Distribution Analysis - 2 views

www.cell.com/...S0006-3495(10)05256-2

bio phy nan

shared by LeopoldS on 06 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Mar 11
     
    something for Camilla and Tobias ...
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