Re:Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]
by ianai on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:08PM
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That’s very informative! What do you figure are potentially new applications for this that aren’t possible without it?
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Re:Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]
by abakker on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:58PM
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Safety. It’s light, and doesn’t store a lot of elastic energy, so when it does fail it doesn’t whip. That is a feature for winch lines and webbing bits for climbing.
Usually with these new fibers, the applications are lightness, since for applications without weight sensitivity steel is pretty awesome.