thermal conductivity – The InfoGreenGlobal https://infogreenglobal.com The InfoGreenGlobal Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:57:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals https://infogreenglobal.com/spider-silk-conduct-heat-as-well-as-metals/ https://infogreenglobal.com/spider-silk-conduct-heat-as-well-as-metals/#respond Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:24:57 +0000 http://infogreenglobal.com/?p=4740 Xinwei Wang had a hunch that spider silk webs were worth a much closer look. So he ordered eight spiders – Nephila clavipes, golden silk orbweavers – and put them to work eating crickets and spinning webs in the cages he set up in an Iowa State University greenhouse. Wang, an associate professor of mechanical […]

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