Graphene-strength spider silk

[Jubal]

These are not your friendly neighborhood spiders: scientists have mixed a graphene solution that when fed to spiders allows them to spin super-strong webbing. How strong? Strong enough to carry the weight of a person. And these spiders might soon be enlisted to help manufacture enhanced ropes and cables, possibly even parachutes for skydivers, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

Graphene is a wonder-material that is an atomic-scale hexagonal lattice made of carbon atoms. It's incredibly strong, but it was definitely a shot in the dark to see what would happen if it was fed to spiders.

Link: https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/spider-spins-web-can-hold-weight-human-after-drinking-graphene


So this is pretty awesome - good fuel for any mad science type stories anyone's got going, to say the least

[Pentagathus]

Fuuuuuuug. Is very cool.

[Caradìlis]

Thanks...
I am so definitely using this as inspiration at some point in the near future (once I have time for proper writing again...)