{"id":29384,"date":"2017-08-01T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=29384"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:56:18","slug":"super-flexible-strong-artificial-silk-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/super-flexible-strong-artificial-silk-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-flexible and strong artificial silk developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Scientists from which of the following countries have developed Super-flexible and strong artificial silk?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Harvard University<br \/>\n(b) Cambridge University<br \/>\n(c) Melbourne University<br \/>\n(d) Stanford University<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to the reports published on July 10, 2017, a team of scientist (architects and chemists) from the University of Cambridge has developed super-stretchy and strong fibers.<\/li>\n<li>This fiber is composed of water (98%) and hydrogel (2%) made of silica and cellulose.<\/li>\n<li>The fibres are pulled from the hydrogel, forming long, extremely thin threads is a few millionths of a metre in diameter.<\/li>\n<li>After the hydrogel is stretched for roughly 30 seconds, the water evaporates, leaving a strong fibre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/green-method-developed-for-making-artificial-spider-silk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/green-method-developed-for-making-artificial-spider-silk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/super-flexible-and-strong-artificial-silk-developed\/article19289967.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/super-flexible-and-strong-artificial-silk-developed\/article19289967.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Scientists from which of the following countries have developed Super-flexible and strong artificial silk? (a) Harvard University (b) Cambridge University (c) Melbourne University (d) Stanford University Answer- (b) Related facts: According to the reports published on July 10, 2017, a team of scientist (architects and chemists) from the University of Cambridge has developed super-stretchy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-29384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}