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Chemistry World
April 23, 2009
Nina Notman |
Metal toughens up spider silk Spider silk, already one of the strongest fibres known, can be made even stronger by infusing metals into its protein structure, scientists in Germany say.   |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Tying up spider silk's loose ends The way spider silk proteins can be stored as a fluid but spun instantly into fibres is all down to their end parts, European scientists have discovered. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Water-Catching Spinout From Synthetic Spider Silk Synthetic spider silk can collect water more efficiently than its natural counterpart |
Chemistry World
March 25, 2014
David Bradley |
Silkscreen printing goes nano A team at Tufts University, US, has demonstrated that water can be used as the base for electron-beam lithography if silk is the target material with another acting as the mask for areas onto which the beam must not impinge. |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2011
David Bradley |
Chemists Dying to Uncover Historic Textiles' Secrets Researchers have developed a sensitive and simple technique for identifying the dyes used to colour textile artefacts. |
Chemistry World
July 10, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Silky solution to storing vaccines and drugs Storing delicate vaccines and antibiotics in freeze-dried silk could eliminate the need for refrigerated storage, reducing transport costs and waste, say US researchers. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2011
Jon Cartright |
Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments. |
Chemistry World
August 26, 2008
Fred Campbell |
High-throughput protein microarrays on the way A new method to rapidly generate protein microarrays has been developed by UK researchers at the University of Manchester. |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2011
James Urquhart |
Silk delivers drugs without the pain Silk's multifunctional properties could offer a safe and pain-free way to administer drugs and vaccines, as well as store drugs without the need for refrigeration. |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2006
Michael Gross |
Ancient Protein Moonlights in the Eye A structural protein in the mouse eye lens is the evolutionary descendant of an ancient bacterial enzyme, researchers have found -- suggesting that moonlighting saved the protein from oblivion when its original role was taken over by a different family of enzymes. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2012
Andy Extance |
'Spider threads' bring great self-healing power US and Hong Kong scientists have invented a material that can heal itself from millimeter-scale cracks when heated, using spider-silk inspired plastic threads. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Hayley Birch |
How spider silk soaks up water Spider silk may change its structure when it gets wet, enhancing its ability to capture water from the air, a new study by Chinese scientists suggests |
Reactive Reports
Issue 64
David Bradley |
Proteins' Web of Intrigue An investigative look into what makes spider silk so strong. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Worms' diet the key to coloured silk Scientists in Singapore have found out how to produce coloured silk based on the diet fed to silkworms. |
Chemistry World
March 3, 2013
James Urquhart |
Polymer production line runs on DNA US researchers have developed a purely chemical and enzyme-free system that can build synthetic polymers using DNA as a template. |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2015
Emma Stephen |
Caddisfly silk gets shocked into self-recovery The tough, extendable, energy-dissipating properties of the casemaker caddisfly's adhesive silk are down to a self-recovering network of calcium cross links, new research shows. |
BusinessWeek
December 26, 2005
Maureen Kline |
Italian Style Makes A Stand Reeling under the Chinese onslaught, manufacturers are stressing their strengths. |
