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Spider Silk from Goats

Spider Silk from Goats. By: Dhwani Patel MEEN 3344. Spider Silk. Spider silk is extremely strong. It is has tensile strength greater then steel and is more flexible. A 747 Boeing jet could be stopped in flight by a strand that is pencil thick.

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Spider Silk from Goats

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  1. Spider Silk from Goats By: Dhwani Patel MEEN 3344

  2. Spider Silk • Spider silk is extremely strong. It is has tensile strength greater then steel and is more flexible. • A 747 Boeing jet could be stopped in flight by a strand that is pencil thick. • This fiber is ultra light, about 25% lighter then traditional polymers.

  3. Spider Silk Cont. • elastic modulus 10-50 GigaPascals, and has tensile strength of 1.1-1.4 GPa • The silk is safe to be used to replace humans body parts giving the user wider range in motion then the traditional replacements available today.

  4. Problems with Spider Silk • It is extremely difficult to create Spider Silk on a commercial scale • Nexia, a Canadian company is hoping to create an unlimited supply of Spider Silk in goat milk. • Nexia has cloned a goat with spider genes.

  5. Webster and Pete • Webster and Pete are the first goats who have this gene. • When they mate their kids are hoped to produce milk which has the silk protein. • The “silk milk” from the goats will then be used to create fibers known as Biosteel.

  6. Documentation • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm • http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/spindraad.htm • http://www.harveygallery.com/a0-18A%20cap%20Spider%20Web%20AAA.jpg • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.srv.net/~dkv/hobospider/index_files/malehob2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.onewest.net/~dkv/hobospider/&h=430&w=640&sz=17&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=CPmQCRYaOau0QM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspider%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_silk • http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:cy0LyoTI-msJ:tc.engr.wisc.edu/Steuber/papers/2002/spider_p_1st.doc+strength+and+stiffness+spider+silk&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

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