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Google News: Spider Silk Weaves New Path for Electronics
[IEEE Spectrum] - (Other labs have already used silk from the silk moth, Bombyx mori, as the gate insulator in a transistor.) Conducting and semiconducting fibers could be readily woven into fabrics to make so-called smart textiles, such as shirts that could sense
Google News: Mit Seidenfasern Trümmerbrüche heilen
[Wissenschaft aktuell Nachrichtendienst] - Zusammen mit Kollegen aus Mexiko und Indien behandelte er die flexiblen und reißfesten Fasern der Seideraupenart Bombyx mori mit einer alkalischen Flüssigkeit. Dabei entstanden stabile Mikrofasern, die ein vorher weiches Seidengerüst verfestigten.
Indian scientists use silk as bone graft material
www.deccanherald.com
[Deccan Herald] - The scientists mixed a protein extracted from silkworm (Bombyx mori) with silk fibres and other chemicals to create the scaffold whose strength is close to the strength of body's own soft bones found. They may become useful in plastic surgeries
Google News: Strengthening Silk Bone Grafts: Scientists Work To Harness World's Strongest ...
[International Business Times] - Some researchers are looking to a more unexpected source of material for bone grafts - the larva of Bombyx mori, also known as the the domesticated silkworm. Silk is a promising material for bone grafts because it is the strongest naturally occurring
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