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Science turned to planting Spider-Man in reality

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Slowly, but for sure We do well gadgets that we imagined as children who would happen to the future. Watch Video Penny Brown from Inspector gadget? Check. Starfleet Tricorder Star Trek? Almost there. But shooting the network? Stringing? It wasn’t us Really The thought will make the crossover. And it was not exactly in the plans of the scientist who realized a robust, sticky, air network, Marco Lo Presti, from Silkubu University of Tufts.

In 2020, LO Presti, a research assistant for a biomedical engineering professor, worked on the challenge of underwater adhesives. The first material he chose consisted of silk and dopamine, a popular combination, because he imitates the way the mussels stick to the rock surfaces in the water – something that was useful in other applications.

“Using acetone for cleaning the glass expression of silk and dopamine,” he says, “I noticed that it goes into a solid format, into a material that looks like a network, into something that looked like fiber. I showed FIO vials and we immediately started thinking about how we can make remote glue [a substance that sticks to an object from a distance] from that. “

FIO to Fiorenzo Omenetto, professor of engineering at Tufts and “Puppeteer” Silleb. “We would like to say that every experiment is carefully planned with equations and a lot of thoughts, but it is really about a relationship,” he says. “You explore, play and combine dots. Part of the art that is very underestimated is the place where you say: “Hey, wait a second, is this Spider-Man?” And at the beginning you will feel, but the material that imitates superpowers is always a very, very good thing. “

Before Lo Presti could pay attention to these random networks, he had to finish it paper On underwater adhesives using biomolecules, which he did in 2021. Silklab’s many works are “inspired by bio” spiders and silkworms, mussels and barnacle, velvet slime, even tropical orchids- something useful may seem to be an simple side step for the team.

However, LO Presti indicates that although the recent material imitates the spider’s thread: “There is no spider capable of throwing, shooting a solution of the solution that turns into a fiber and performs remote interception of a distant object.” It was something recent, at least for the real world.

But as a research article in Advanced functional materials Notes – fictitious characters come in. In the original comics of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko from the 1960s, starting from Amazing fantasy #15Peter Parker builds a “small device”, at the same time attached to each wrist and launched by finger pressure to produce strands of thrown “spiders”. Until mid 2000, Raimi himself Spider-Man Movies, internet shooting changed from the wearing wrist of the spinneret gadget to the ecological part of his superhero transformation.

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