BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - What is spider silk made of?

Ludwigshafen (ots) - Over millions of years of evolution, spiders
have developed the perfect material for constructing a net: spider
silk. Material researchers can get pretty worked up just talking
about its properties. It has five times the tensile strength that a
steel thread of the same diameter has, and is at the same time more
ductile - stretchable - than most plastic fibers. In entertaining
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