FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend with a consideration of the biology of spider webs, how they arose, and how and why they function as they do. It is a lovely story of inventiveness at many scales: the molecular design of the material with sliding hydrogen bonds giving it toughness; the various positioning of the webs giving rise to substrate freedom; and the web geometry that exploits efficiency of an expensive material with high functionality for a powerful prey.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022