Japan Develops New Synthetic Spider Silk

< p > according to foreign media reports, at present, Japan's < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Spiber < /a > the company uses a synthetic spider silk to make a brilliant iron blue < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > women's wear < /a >. The company shows that this dress is only confirmed that the unique ultra light spider silk material has many uses.

This synthetic fiber based on spider silk is called Qmonos, which is derived from the Japanese word kumonosu, which means spider web.

Spider silk strength is greater than the same thickness of steel, and even more flexible than nylon, if it is used to make armor, strength is at least 3 times Kevlar's bulletproof vest.

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< p > spider silk occurs in the rotating gland of spiders. It is an irregular curled protein, which is formed at precise acidity, water content and chemical concentration, and is released by catheter.

These fibers are watertight, partially pparent and partly curly.

In addition, spider silk can also be used as bandage and has good antibacterial properties.

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< p > at present, scientists are very fond of spider silk because it has a wide range of uses, such as parachute ropes and artificial blood vessels.

In nature, spider silk turns into a linear structure, but in the laboratory, the protein can be rearranged into spheres, membranes and capsules.

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< p > a team of scientists in the United States has tried to genetically improve goats and produce spider silk proteins in goat milk.

Now the synthetic gene is used to induce bacteria to produce silk fibroin to form an artificial spider silk. The silk protein produced by bacteria is a structural protein in spider silk.

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Spiders use this technology to effectively cultivate the bacteria after P, and weave this silk protein into spider silk.

At present, the Affiliated Companies of Tokyo Keio University has applied for 16 patents in spider silk technology.

They also worked with an auto parts manufacturer to build a factory that can produce 99.8 kilograms of synthetic spider silk per month.

Spiber hopes to produce 10 tons of synthetic spider silk in one year in 2015.

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< p > president of the company < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/pioneer/" > Kazuhide Sekiyama < /a > said: "this synthetic spider silk has many industrial uses, such as automobile manufacturing and medical fields."

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