{"id":153584,"date":"2022-12-25T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/synthetic-spider-silk-stronger-and-tougher-than-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2022-12-25T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T21:27:54","slug":"synthetic-spider-silk-stronger-and-tougher-than-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/synthetic-spider-silk-stronger-and-tougher-than-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic spider silk stronger and tougher than the real thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-spider-silk-stronger-and-tougher-than-the-real-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2021 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Spider silk is one of nature\u2019s most impressive materials, exhibiting impressive strength and toughness. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis claim to have created an artificial version that can outperform some natural spider silks.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first rodeo for this research team \u2013 back in 2018 they developed a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/biosynthetic-spider-silk-large-proteins\/56004\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">synthetic spider silk<\/a> that was about on par with the real thing, in terms of tensile strength, extensibility and toughness. To do so, they spliced silk-producing genes into bacteria, and tweaked them so that proteins in the silk would fuse together to make a stronger, tougher material.<\/p>\n<p>For the new study, the team built on this prior work to not just match natural spider silk but to surpass it. The key component is beta-nanocrystals, which boost the material\u2019s strength but are hard to reproduce synthetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2021 face_with_colon_three Spider silk is one of nature\u2019s most impressive materials, exhibiting impressive strength and toughness. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis claim to have created an artificial version that can outperform some natural spider silks. This isn\u2019t the first rodeo for this research team \u2013 back in 2018 they developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}