Sentence examples for strong silk from inspiring English sources

Litt is working with researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are building high-performance flexible electronics from silicon and other conventional materials on substrates of biodegradable, mechanically strong silk films provided by researchers at Tufts University.

Mechanically strong silk fibroin cryogels with two generations of pores were produced by carrying out the cryogelation reactions within the pores of the initial single-network (SN) fibroin cryogels.

The screen is usually made of fine but strong silk gauze (available in different mesh sizes) but can also be made of synthetic gauzes (nylon, tergal) or of wire gauze (phosphor bronze, stainless steel, nickel) or of combinations (nylon copper, nylon bronze).

Spiders spin different kinds of silk for different tasks—strong silk for a web's outline, for instance, and sticky silk for capturing prey.

He also can do insect-related things like spin strong silk very quickly.

Classified as a gum-footed tangle web, the web is an irregular-looking tangle of fine but strong silk.

What links an African clawed frog once used as a human pregnancy test, a transgenic goat bred to produce super-strong silk and a rat whose preference for booze may have helped Finnish alcoholics?

The company will then pursue industrial applications using much stronger silk.

Scientists at Tsinghua University in Beijing have found that if you feed silkworms graphene (a form of carbon consisting of sheets one atom thick arranged in a honeycomb pattern), they will produce super-strong silk.

Scientists from the University of Wyoming, the University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University in China have managed to genetically modify silkworms to spin stronger silk using spider genes.

It is slightly erratic in appearance and made with stronger silk than most other spider webs.