Spider Silk Could Give Us Biodegradable Computer Chips

treehugger.com 15 Oct '12, 4pm

Spider Silk Could Give Us Biodegradable Computer Chips

Researchers have been trying to crack the code of spider silk for years. Its properties make it ideal for so many uses , but so far its recipe has remained the secret of spiders. Yet that doesn't mean researchers aren't coming up with amazing ways to use the silk spiders produce themselves. And this time, it's computer chips. According to Wired, "Light can travel through a silk strand as easily as it does through a fiber optic cable" as discovered by physicist Nolwenn Huby of the Institut de Physique de Rennes in France. "Huby and her team were able to transmit laser light down a short strand of the silk on an integrated circuit chip. The silk worked much like glass fiber optic cables, meaning it could carry information for electronic devices, though it had about four orders of magnitude more loss than the glass. Huby said that with a coating and further development, the s...

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