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1 July 2009
Adding titanium, aluminium and zinc metals to spider silk can make it up to ten times stronger with greater extensibility. This could result in the production of super-tough textile-based composite materials for a range of industry end-uses according to scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany.