Spider silk is one of the most extraordinary materials ... Vollrath and his team were inspired by this “liquid wire” to create their own composite fibers in the lab. They tapped into the ...

Spider silk is notoriously difficult to recreate artificially ... The oil droplets take on what Vollrath's team calls "liquid wire," an appropriately cool term for a material with the potential ...

These researchers produced liquid wire to confirm their understanding of the mechanism behind spider silk weirdness, but that doesn't mean their artificial version of the stuff won't have ...

And they’ve proven that they understand how this “liquid wire” works by actually creating ... of capture thread – the segments of spider silk that connect the radiating branches of these ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, releases the following statement regarding ...

Kanye West's music video for his breakout single Through the Wire may have made ... but don't discount silk from other, less cuddly bugs — like spiders. Spider silk is very elastic (it can ...

Spider silk has several structurally beneficial properties that may be attractive for use in electronic devices, such as great strength and flexibility, but its use in electronic applications depends ...

Getting enough silk is difficult. Spiders make the strongest silk that we know about. Unfortunately, spider silk is hard to come by—it’s certainly very hard to get enough for most uses ...