Spider Silk: Mother Nature’s Bio-Superlens
August 25, 2016, via Bangor University
Most of us are accustomed to glass lenses on our microscopes. But new research from Bangor University and University of Oxford shows that spider silk can be used as a superlens – a lens with resolving power exceeding what is possible with conventional optics. The new spiderlens provides a 2x improvement in resolution over what is normally possible. Excitingly, spider silk is also an incredibly cheap, abundant, and robust material.