Spider’s silk is, pound for pound, five times stronger than steel and far more elastic than rubber. For more than 10 years the US military has been trying to find ways of turning it into ultra-strong, lightweight, bulletproof vests.
Spider silk is a material sciencewonder – a self-assembling, biodegradable,high-performance, nanofibre structure one-tenth the widthof a human hair that can stop a beetravelling at 20 mph without breaking.”
“Spider silk has dwarfed man’s achievements in material science to date.” Guardian 2001
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