Silk-based web-slinging technology

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Inspired by Spider-Man, a Lab Recreates Web-Slinging Technology

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Researchers at Tufts University have created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and adhere to and lift objects.

The silk fibroin solution can be extruded through narrow bore needles to form a stream that solidifies into a fiber when exposed to air.

The diameter of the fibers could be varied between that of a human hair to about half a millimeter depending on the bore of the needle.

In this case, we wanted to reverse engineer our silk material to behave the way nature originally designed it, and comic book writers imagined it.” The innovation is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials ..

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