Hagfish slime as a model for tomorrow's natural fabrics
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 11:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Nylon, Kevlar and other synthetic fabrics: Step aside. If new scientific research pans out, people may be sporting shirts, blouses and other garments made from fibers modeled after those in the icky, super-strong slime from a creature called the hagfish. The study appears in ACS' journal Biomacromolecules.