Posted on 06/15/2021 7:57:37 PM PDT by blueplum
Researchers from the University of Cambridge may have a viable solution to the single-use plastic dilemma: spider silk. Or, more accurately, a plant-based synthetic polymer that mimics the composition of spider silk, but doesn't actually come from the eight-legged arthropods.
The researchers modeled their polymer after spider silk due to its durability and strength—if you could scale up a spiderweb to human size, it would be capable of trapping an airplane. In fact, spider silk is five times stronger than steel, and half as strong as Kevlar; it's considered one of the strongest naturally occurring materials on Earth.
Incredibly, the scientists developed the synthetic material while studying something else altogether: protein formation and interactions. It all began with a series of protein analyses....
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
applications could be endless?...
Chitin does the same...
It is no more vegan than honey is. The loony left considers it exploitation and theft of small critter labor. No joke.
“The researchers found success using soy protein isolate”
well, they won’t be growing the soy beans with windmills and solar panels ... it takes petro chemicals for fertilizers, weed killers, tractor fuel, combine fuel, milling and industrial chemical processing, etc., etc. ...
“Synthetic Spider Silk, my Boy. THAT’S where it’s at.
Mark my word!”
Didn’t think most spiders were vegans.
Soy has estrogen.
They’re trying to make dudes into fruitcakes...
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