The golden silk, a luxury once reserved for Roman emperors, has been recreated by modern scientists.

Finest silk made of the purest nanometer-thin gold woven into ties and handkerchiefs Date: November 2, 2011 Source: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) Summary ...

The researchers coated spider silk with a thin layer of gold to allow it to conduct electricity. This way, when they put the fiber in a magnetic field, it could produce a detectable voltage.

First, he mashed the silk thread into a smaller and thinner material and coated it with natural wax. "The first version of my silk-based dental floss completely failed," he says.

Known as a laser-activated nanosealant (LANS), it consists of a biocompatible silk solution obtained from silkworm cocoons, mixed with microscopic gold nanorods.

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