The Promise of Silk
source: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/07/science/08SILK-5.html
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Among the latest potential applications, which Tufts researchers developed with colleagues at Boston University and elsewhere, is the idea of using silk as the basis for meta-materials like the terahertz resonator on silk substrate, which has 2,500 elements.
An RFID coil made of silk substrate and gold can help tell when food goes bad. Compounds on silk are immobilized and stable, so films might eventually provide long-term storage of vaccines or other medicines at room temperatures.
Metamaterials can manipulate light or other electromagnetic radiation in ways that nature ordinarily cannot. Here, a researcher projects a laser through a flexible silk film with a diffractive optic pattern to create an image of an eye.
Even holograms can also be made of silk.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/07/science/08SILK-5.html
An RFID coil made of silk substrate and gold can help tell when food goes bad. Compounds on silk are immobilized and stable, so films might eventually provide long-term storage of vaccines or other medicines at room temperatures.
Metamaterials can manipulate light or other electromagnetic radiation in ways that nature ordinarily cannot. Here, a researcher projects a laser through a flexible silk film with a diffractive optic pattern to create an image of an eye.
Even holograms can also be made of silk.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/03/07/science/08SILK-5.html
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ampersand
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It's good to be reminded that the uses of modern science aren't all necessarily toxic.
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