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Nanoscale Optical Fiber From Spider Silk

Posted by timothy on from the where-are-those-goats dept.

Makarand writes "Engineers may soon be able to make the finest optical fibers with some help from spiders. To make optical fibers narrower for nanoscale applications, researchers coated spider silk fibers with glassy material which was later removed by baking. The spider Stegodyphus pacificus, a native of the Middle East and South Asia, spins the thinnest known silk which promises to yield optical fibers with a diameter of around two nanometres!"

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  1. Re:Grr... by twiztidlojik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahem.

    The parent's parent was a joke.
    Sorry if I pissed off you foreigners with no sense of sarcasm.

    That being said, I am, in fact, an inbred West Virginian. I drive my fat ass to work everyday in an (SUV|pickup truck) with a gun rack. I eat five pounds of lard everyday. I am also stupid and arrogant.

    This, too, was sarcasm. Thank you.

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    I will now redundantly add my name to the end of my post. You know, in case you forgot me or something.