By adding chitosan and borate buffer, the researchers were also able to enhance the fibers’ strength and adhesiveness. This ...

We will look at a very easy experiment that provides lots of information about the strength or the mechanical behavior of a material, called the tensile test. The basic idea of a tensile test is to ...

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The tonnage necessary to bend 1 ft. does not double at 2 ft. but instead may increase by two-and-a-half to three times. As ...

Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS), ultimate strength, or Ftu within equations, is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or ...

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Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed a silk-based sticky fluid that instantly turns into a fibrous material when ejected, evoking the gravity-defying, web-slinging powers of the ...

Every kid who has read a comic book or watched a Spider-Man movie has tried to imagine what it would be like to shoot a web ...

In a recent breakthrough, researchers have utilized a one-step tension-assisted twisting (TAT) method to fabricate bacterial ...

The stream of liquid silk quickly turns to a strong fiber that sticks to and lifts objects - although not yet villains.

Credit: Marco Lo Presti/Tufts University/Cover Images Scientists have engineered a new material that mimics Spider-Man's ...