using electrode arrays with silk proteins and thin metal electrodes. Since silk is biocompatible and water-soluble, it dissolved in the brains of the cats they studied, leaving the mesh-like ...

“Each nanostrand is a thin thread made of protein, less than a millionth of an inch in diameter.” The paper reports that a typical recluse-silk filament is made up of around 2,500 nanostrands.

Because it’s so thin and flexible, a silk-based device could reach regions ... the flexible array—about one 40th of the thickness of a sheet of paper—faithfully recorded neural activity ...

The collaborators detailed their discovery in a paper in the journal Materials Horizons ... In fact, a strand of recluse silk is so thin that a single strand won’t support the spider itself. “But,” ...

Further imaging studies and complementary theoretical calculations showed that the thin silk layer adopts a stable structure with features found in natural silk. An electronic structure at this ...

Made of thin silk, gauze, damask silk ... In ancient times, the Chinese used bamboo and paper as materials for various kinds of craftworks. As early as in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), color ...

Legend has it silk was discovered by a Chinese empress who was sipping tea under a mulberry tree when a cocoon fell in her cup; the heat unraveling the miraculous material within. Whether or not ...

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development. After thousands of ...

Researchers in the U.S. have developed an ultra-thin silk fabric embedded with a special, piezoelectric fibre that can vibrate to cancel out noise in a room. If made into drapery, the ...

In contrast, the new silk fabric could be used to make compact, lightweight dividers in workspaces, apartments and trains. The first mechanism of sound-wave suppression significantly reduced the ...