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Researchers have developed a method for producing strong plastic materials by tweaking the chemical structure of superglue.
The glue that gives spider webs their stickiness is a form of spider silk protein. Researchers can imagine cool uses for a synthetic version – but had to wait for the tricky glue gene to be sequenced.
Nature has created some of the strongest glues with properties we could use – if we understood how they worked.
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