Electrospun Polymer Yarns with the Strength of Spider Silk (3 of 4) (VIDEO)

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The new material lifting 30g of weight. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 13, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Liao at University of Bayreuth in Bayreuth, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "High strength in combination with high toughness in robust and sustainable polymeric materials."

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Xiaojian Liao and Andreas Greiner

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