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"textContent": "Silk isn't just great as a smooth fabric for luxurious clothing: it's finding a wide range of uses in everything from edible food-preserving wrappers to skin-friendly wearable health monitoring sensors. There's plenty of scope to enhance its characteristics too, and a simple new approach has allowed it to get about as tough as Kevlar.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Materials, Engineering\n\n**Tags:** Silk, Kevlar, Tufts University, Imperial College London, University of Michigan",
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