In a bizarre-sounding experiment at Cambridge as part of the EU Graphene Flagship’s Composites Work Package, the researchers sprayed solutions containing graphene and CNTs into a tank containing spiders. Afterwards, they collected silk the spiders had produced, compared it with silk from before they had their carboniferous lunch, and obtained surprising results…..
https://nano-magazine.com/news/2017/9/18/graphene-munching-spiders-produce-stronger-silk/?email=pr@nanotec.or.th