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 Scientists outdo the spiderAttempts to create a super-strong fibre by mimicking the chemicals found in spider silk may have all been in vain.
University of Texas scientists say they have outdone the spider and its lab-coat imitators by spinning a fibre made of carbon nanotubes - the microscopic tubes of carbon that have remarkable properties, being tough, light and inert yet able to conduct heat and electricity.
Ray Baughman and colleagues, writing in Thursday's issue of the British science weekly Nature, say they have experimentally made up to 100m lengths of fibre, at the rate of 70cm per minute.
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