These scientists want to give patients medicines wrapped in silk
For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics. Now, researchers in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: ...
Nature6 个月
A new route for silk
into the water-based fibroin solution. The solution was then cast on a holographic diffraction-grating master mould to obtain free-standing silk gratings with a grating pitch of 600 grooves per ...
ZME Science on MSN1 个月
Scientists create silk fiber that mimics Spider-Man’s web-slinging powers
Marco Lo Presti, who is the lead study author and an assistant professor at Tufts University was trying to create powerful ...
Azer News17 小时
Ancient Chinese sacrifice silk to the gods
A group of scientists from the Chinese National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and ...
Tri-City Herald1 个月
PNNL researchers advance silky solution for microelectronics
The most prominent of the two main proteins in silk, silk fibroin, is the material with promising qualities. The challenge, however, is that silk fibroin has a disorderly molecular structure ...
Evidence of silk found in Bronze Age sacrificial pits
China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed the use of ...