Bio-Mimicry Science Makes Spider Silk Stronger
Move over Nature…the famed strength of a spider’s web silk now has some competition. Bio-mimicry and bio-materials–both emerging new sciences that seek to utilize and/or reproduce or modify natural biological materials and properties for commercial usage–has been seeing an explosion of research and experimentation of late. Recent bio-materials experiments with spider dragline silk (taken from the Araneus spider’s silk glands) have resulted in a bio-mimicked new material that is stronger than its natural version.
