No Sow's Ear; Silk from the Sea  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8760 (Nov. 2011), page 79.
Topik: Silk; Research; Zoology; Crustaceans
Fulltext: Silk From the Sea.pdf (35.91KB)

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Spider silk is impressive stuff. Stronger than steel, flexible and exceedingly light. Barnacle glue is equally special. It holds an animal whose ancestors swam freely in the sea to rocks that are often battered by powerful waves. What, then, might a combination of the two achieve? Fritz Vollrath, of Oxford University, hopes to find out. As he describes in Naturwissenschaften, he and his colleagues have found that a small marine crustacean called Crassicorophium bonellii produces a material which has the adhesive characteristics of barnacle glue and the structural properties of spider-silk fibres. It is water-resistant and flexible, but also somewhat sticky, and is employed by the animals to construct tubular homes in the sediments of the sea bed.

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