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Did you know that luxurious, expensive silk fabric is made from … well, worm spit? The way that silkworms wind their cocoons from fibers in their slimy saliva is now helping scientists more easily make new materials with biomedical applications. Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have mimicked the seemingly simple head-bobbing of silkworms to create uniform micro- and nanofibers with less equipment than other methods.
“Biomimetic Microadhesion Guided Instant Spinning” ” – Yu Wang, Ph.D., Wei Yang, Ph.D. and Xuewei Fu, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03297
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Did you know that luxurious, expensive silk fabric is made from … well, worm spit? The way that silkworms wind their cocoons from fibers in their slimy saliva is now helping scientists more easily make new materials with biomedical applications. Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters have mimicked the seemingly simple head-bobbing of silkworms to create uniform micro- and nanofibers with less equipment than other methods.
“Biomimetic Microadhesion Guided Instant Spinning” ” – Yu Wang, Ph.D., Wei Yang, Ph.D. and Xuewei Fu, Ph.D. (corresponding authors)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03297
You might also like:
Headline Science:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLG7h7fPoH8JRH8bEJdgnwZnyA5N-9UaE
Ingenious:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLG7h7fPoH8IjxpWPKu5L1acNYO5T070P
ACS Fall 2022 Media Briefings - Archived:
acs.org/acsfall2022briefings
Chemical & Engineering News
youtube.com/channel/UCB_zuUSmh_PVkqwkaDT-thA
Produced by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.
Join the American Chemical Society! bit.ly/Join_ACS
