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Optimized adhesives drawn from nature

Filed in archive Research on January 16, 2007

Optimized adhesives drawn from nature
Following up on my post about Brian Eno's talk, Before and After Darwin, I look at a work in progress where scientists looking at nature at the nanoscale have made some discoveries that could transform whole industries.

I invite you to read about optimized adhesives from abalone and spider silk at GreenTechBlog.

There I explore how researchers have found an optimized adhesive contained in bone, abalone shells and spider silk that could be used in "glues" for nanocomposite materials. Their work could lead to a new class of adhesives that far exceed current ones like urea formaldehyde, which is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the EPA.

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Tags: nanotechnology  nanotech  nano  optimized  adhesive  abalone  bone  silk  2007  optimized+adhesives 

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