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Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon
from the side-of-nightmare-with-your-space-elevator dept.
Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, say materials scientists. [technologyreview.com]
No word in the article on how close to the necessary tensile strength for a space elevator they come. Or how quickly the spiders got cancer. But at least it's a simple process. I wonder if the same technique will work with silkworms, which are commercially viable (something that spiders aren't).
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