Nerissa Kimble was excited to get a silk press at a Texas hair salon. But she was turned away when she showed up for her ...

There’s no such thing as a lyocell plant, and the name “lyocell” doesn’t reveal much about its story. Lyocell is a type of ...

Spider silk, already known for its exceptional strength, reveals an astonishing manufacturing process. Researchers have ...

Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

The artificial silk threads, while still soft and gummy are then stretched on drums or reels and dried, during which process they take on the beautiful luster so eagerly sought for by silk ...

Find out how spider silk's unique properties can be replicated for practical applications. Read the full research here ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains. Both ...