For a 14″ x 14″ silk screen, you’ll need a 14″ x 16″ piece of 3/4″ plywood or particle board; about six feet of 1 x 2 pine; two loose-pin hinges with screws; two wing nuts, bolts and washers; a piece ...

Researchers discuss the properties of silk and recent and future applications of the material. It has been used in drug delivery and is ideal for wearable and implantable health monitoring sensors.

“Silk: A World History” describes the unique qualities of silk that make it a sustainable material with a wide variety of applications. The following is an excerpt from Silk: A World History by ...

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 -- While silk is best known as a component in clothes and fabric, the material has plentiful uses, spanning biomedicine to environmental science. In Applied Physics Reviews ...