Their resulting paper, published in Advanced Materials ... When they do, they talk about how their work paves the way to synthesizing brown recluse-inspired thin silk films in the future. They say ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

(d,e) Microscopy images of the ultra-thin silk films patterned in squares (d ... The work is detailed in their short paper published in Advanced Materials with the non-obvious title “Bimodal ...

and then using them to make a thin silk film. In a 2009 paper, published in Applied Physics Letters, the researchers showed that an array of six tiny silicon transistors could be mounted on a ...

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 from MIT have engineered a special silk fabric so thin it’s barely thicker than a human hair yet powerful enough significantly to reduce noise transmission in large spaces.

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 ...