News Headline

A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-09-16

Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa. Now Aalto University and VTT researchers have succeeded in overcoming this challenge, with inspiration from nature.

Content
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-combination-wood-fibres-spider-silk.html