Science has realized Spider -Man Web Sling

Slowly and surely, We do good things with gadgets that we imagined that the future would be held like a child. From Penny Brown Video Watch Inspector gadget? check. From the Space Fleet Tricododa Star Trek? Almost there. But web shoot? Web sling? It wasn’t ours Really The idea is crossover. And it was not accurate for the planning of a scientist that Marco Lo Presti’s strong and adhesive aircrove’s powerful and sticky aircraft web was a reality.

In 2020, Lo Presti, an assistant professor at biological medicine engineering, was working on submersible tasks. The first choice he chose to work on silk and dopamine. This is useful for other purposes because the mussels mimic the method of sticking firmly on the surface of the underwater rock.

“While using acetone to clean this silk and dopamine substance glass products,” he says. I showed my vials to Fio and immediately started thinking about how to make remote adhesives (substances that stick to objects from a distance). “

FIO is a TUFTS engineering professor and Silklab’s “Pupeter” Fiorenzo Omenetto. “We want to say that all experiments are planned with a struggle with equations and many foresight, but that’s really connected,” he says. “You’re like exploring, playing, and connecting dots. A part of the very underestimated play is,” Wait a minute, is this like a Spider -Man? ” 。 And at first, you can pay it, but the material that imitates a superpower is always very good. “

Before Lo Presti pays attention to these accidental webs, he had to complete a dissertation on underwater adhesives using the biomolecules conducted in 2021. Many of the Silk Love works are spider and cowgica’s “bi -in spirit”. It may seem like a simple side step for the team whether this sticky web can be useful, even for barbets, velvet worm slime, and tropical runs. 。

However, LO PRESTI pointed out that although the new material imitates the spider thread, “there is no emissioned spider, it can be turned into fibers, and it can shoot the flow of the solution that performs remote capture of distant objects.” I am doing it. At least for the real world, this was a new one.

However, as the research papers of advanced functional materials have pointed out, we are paying attention to fictitious characters. Stan Lee and Steve Ditoko’s original manga book in the 1960s Great fantasy # 15Peter Parker builds a “small device” that is fixed to each wrist and caused by the pressure of the finger, and generates a chain of a “spider net” that can be emitted. Until the mid -2000s samurai Spider -Man Film and web shooting have been switched from the decorated spinnerlet gadgets to the organic part of his superhero transformation.