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Everyone Denies Spider Silk

The production of spider silk in commercial quantities holds the potential of a life-saving ballistic resistant material, which is lighter, thinner, more flexible, and tougher than steel. Other applications of spider silk include use as structural material and for any application in which light weight and high strength are required. Kraig Biocraft Laboratoriesu2019 believes that in the near future, genetically engineered spider silk will make significant inroads into the market for high-strength fibers.

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Everyone Denies Spider Silk

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  1. Everyone Denies Spider Silk, But Its More Than You Think!

  2. The charm of the silk fabric has allured mankind since thousands for years. The dazzle, broad range of colors and the excellent texture has made this fabric - the most amicable of all. Silk fabric is manufactured by both, naturally and artificially. There are four types of natural silk is available, namely tasar, mulberry, muga and eri. However, the higher demand for natural silk led pressure to find out other options to make silk.

  3. The four natural silk sources seem incapable to cater the increasing demands. Now here a significant question arises - Is there any other source available to get natural silk? The answer is "YES", it's a "Spider Silk". It is true that irritating and ignored insect can produce good silk fibre. Spider silk is a fibre, which is extracted from spiders. It is strong fibre, even its tensile strength is compared to the steel.

  4. The tensile strength for one type of steel at 1.65 Gpa, whereas spider silk is nearly at 1.3 Gpa. But, the density of spider silk less than steel and its tensile strength to density is about five times more than steel, such as DuPont's Kevlar, aromatic nylon filaments.

  5. Spider silk is made of complex molecules of protein. Spider can't be farmed such as silkworms, as they are cannibals. Due to this nature they even eat each other. The silk extracted is very fine, thus to make one square yard cloth 400 spiders are require. The fibre gets harden when it is exposed to open air that creates a problem to work with. Because of the repetitive symptoms of the DNA encoding it is difficult to recognize its sequence. Only from 14 species the protein has been decoded.

  6. The silk gland releases the fibre. Different spider species have different glands for their own reason like web-creation, housing, capturing the prey and defense. The visible part of the gland is called as the spinneret. The initial part of the gland is full of thiol and tyrosine, the key ingredients in silk fibre. After making of fibres, the ampulla plays role of a storage box. Here, spinning duct sweeps-off water from the fiber and small channels also help in this process. Liquid separation is conducted at the verge the distal limb of the duct, and further passes to the valve. The valve is anticipated to help in fixing broken fibers again, playing more in the path of a helical pump.

  7. Contact Us Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. 2723 South State Street Suite 150 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 734-619-8066 Email: corporate@KraigLabs.com

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