Scientists make a "artificial spider silk textile machine"

In nature, spider silk is a magical material that can create super-strong fabrics, but it has been difficult to achieve artificially. The good news is that scientists have created a new machine that will take us a step closer to the future of textile materials. The spider's secret is to secrete a protein solution through a narrow tube that, when it passes through the tube, presses it together to create a spider silk fiber. According to a study published in the journal Nature Chemicals published today, the researchers designed a similar machine that combines two natural spider silk proteins.

With this machine, the researchers have produced the strongest artificial spider silk to date. Its traits are almost identical to real spider silk, biodegradable, and relatively inexpensive to manufacture.

The way in which silk fiber is extracted through sericulture for thousands of years is expected to change in the future. Why no one wants to build a "spider silk farm"? Perhaps it is too difficult for spiders to "cooperate".

In order to solve this problem, other laboratories have tried to weave artificial spider silk, and even considered transferring spider DNA into silkworm.

However, the progress made today does not mean that it can be put into mass production very quickly, because only one machine is currently built, and the scientists only spun about 1 kilometer of material.