Scientists have gained a strong material, adding in a web of carbon nanoparticles Bashny.Net

It is unknown how scientists from the Italian University of Trento was struck by this idea, but they решили sprinkle with water spiders , containing carbon nanotubes and graphene particles. As a result, the spiders began to spin a web with a durable record-breaking performance.

Plain Wide Web - a wonderful creation of nature. In relative terms, it is superior to almost all materials that is learned to produce people. It is also strong in tension, such as steel, while having six times less dense. And some kinds of web and more able to stretch up to five times.

Researchers subjected to experiment a dozen spiders who, suspecting nothing, quietly living in the Italian countryside. We have these spiders are known as pholcidae or spiders crane-fly. After treatment with water containing carbon nanomaterials, given the spiders web of the following characteristics:

- Fracture resistance of 5.4 GPa
- Young's modulus (tensile strength): 47.8 GPa
- Unit strength: 2.1 GPa

These characteristics are superior, for example, Kevlar K49 , used to create ropes and cables.

While scientists can not say exactly how spiders manage to include in the web of carbon nanomaterials.



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This is not the first time that researchers have been trying to change the characteristics of the product issued by the spiders. Among the success rate can be called the addition of the metal microparticles, which also increases the strength of the resulting web - though not to such limits.

Thus, the creation of cable looms for future space elevator - enough to grow a dozen gigantic crane flies, and establish production of a cable through ... Well, in the spiders.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/250148/