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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material
A Quanta Magazine explainer examines how spiders convert a protein solution called silk dope into spider silk, widely regarded as one of the toughest natural materials, stronger than steel by weight. The piece walks through the biological and physical mechanisms of the spinning process, and readers are discussing the material science involved and its potential lessons for engineering synthetic silk.
Why now: New Quanta coverage of spider silk's remarkable properties has caught readers' attention
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- Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material · ibobev · 76
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