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,” ...

The an open-access paper about the research appeared recently ... sound to be reflected by the fabric, resulting in a thin piece of silk that reflects sound like a mirror does with light.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...