Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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KBLB Featured In Jan/Feb Issue Of Textile World:

http://www.textileworld.com/Issues/2012/January_February_2012.html



Quality Fabric Of The Month

Spider Silk: Potential Unleashed
Spider silk technologies developed at the University of Notre Dame jointly with Kraig Biocraft
Laboratories and the University of Wyoming are heading toward commercial availability

Full Article:
http://www.textileworld.com/Articles/2012/January/Jan-Feb_issue/Departments/QFOM_Spider_Silk.html


Excerpt:
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A Generation II 100-percent recombinant spider silk for technical textile applications is in advanced stages of development and soon is expected to be ready for commercialization. This fiber, developed using St. Louis-based Sigma-Aldrich Corp.'s zinc finger gene-splicing technology, would have advanced medical, composite and possibly ballistic applications, among others — spider silk is said to be stronger than aramid and 10 times as strong as steel. "I would like to see testing data before we make ballistic claims," Thompson said, "but there is discussion in the scientific literature that this material would be like a miracle product for ballistic resistance. I imagine it would be used in a composite product to reinforce, for example, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene."

A customizable Generation III fiber that can include various mechanical and chemical properties is also in development.
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