Spiders Spin Possible Solution to ‘Sticky’ Problems

By Nicolas Nussen | University of Akron on May 17, 2014   Science/Education  

Researchers at The University of Akron are again spinning inspiration from spider silk — this time to create more efficient and stronger commercial and biomedical adhesives that could, for example, potentially attach tendons to bones or bind fractures. The Akron scientists created synthetic duplicates of the super-sticky, silk “attachment discs” that spiders use to attach […]