Is Spider Silk the Future of Material Engineering?

Click here https://www.helixsleep.com/scishow for up to $200 off your Helix Sleep mattress plus two free pillows! Free shipping within the US! Spiders have a long and fabled history of being a notorious creepy-crawly, but their silk might just change that image. Here are six ways in which spider silk is being studied to improve life for human beings. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow #SciShow ---------- Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09506608.2016.1148894 Adhesion https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2011.0851 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29514984/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33660351/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04263-z Insecticides https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653517306136 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25193285/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23193048/ Conduction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201104668 http://www.ehu.eus/photothermal/MatLetter2014.pdf https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/HT/proceedings-abstract/HT2013/V001T02A005/243291 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2902&context=facpub Dragline Strength https://www.nature.com/articles/nchembio.1789 https://www.nature.com/articles/35069000 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18723542/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33945014/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180821094234.htm https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00980 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000514 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X02000613 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.201001397 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210720185821.htm https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34251182/ Alternative Plastic https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2541 https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.358.6361.293 https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/12/1417/htm https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bm0607877 https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/handle/2318/81550/11029/19-PRE_2010.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190916101845.htm Biological imaging https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27531579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782642/ https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0007611 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301817700_Spider_Silk_The_Mother_Nature's_Biological_Superlens https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782642/ Robotic muscle https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190301160907.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2782642/ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau9183 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190301160907.htm Image Sources: https://tinyurl.com/mvxhds6k https://tinyurl.com/mwyjhja6 https://tinyurl.com/5xjdt96f https://tinyurl.com/yzp69dd3 https://tinyurl.com/2p8unjyd https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/844000 https://tinyurl.com/bdd9d93z https://tinyurl.com/y9jdyfh7 https://tinyurl.com/3y9v25bh https://tinyurl.com/46shaskw https://tinyurl.com/bdfv4erw https://tinyurl.com/mry49fpc https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31265 https://tinyurl.com/yedaft2h https://tinyurl.com/yc356xek https://tinyurl.com/yv6ce7h7 https://tinyurl.com/2p94tavd https://tinyurl.com/5b9cne7x https://tinyurl.com/2p8s84cn https://tinyurl.com/keb28u7a https://tinyurl.com/5n8tpawk https://tinyurl.com/2fnhkuse https://tinyurl.com/343th78d https://tinyurl.com/79fwm9t5 https://tinyurl.com/2p9au86y https://tinyurl.com/5eb42cv7 https://tinyurl.com/44vbkknb https://tinyurl.com/2wtm5pjh https://tinyurl.com/4uat3s9j https://tinyurl.com/5439fawm https://tinyurl.com/3h9zwac5 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/595304 https://tinyurl.com/5yxuuanr https://tinyurl.com/5y3c4f84 https://tinyurl.com/2p84xp6j https://tinyurl.com/mb2dma5h https://tinyurl.com/2mba6yjf https://tinyurl.com/3wref4kj https://tinyurl.com/bdhvjj8f https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/729582 https://tinyurl.com/k9asrjmu https://tinyurl.com/2ytszt8v https://tinyurl.com/3chfpt4x https://tinyurl.com/mpjpvd57 https://tinyurl.com/5n6vvc8k https://tinyurl.com/mrx4fb6z