With this fabric, your dream of wearing a Spider-Man suit is likely to be realized.

This is probably a very shocking news, your "Spiderman Dream" may soon be realized. According to Quartz, scientists are developing synthetic spider silks, and once they succeed, they use silk to make clothes.

Think of Spider-Man, the superhero. It follows the spider silk that flies out of the wrist and wanders between the tall buildings. It can both save the park and save people, so that the viewers are deeply attracted by the sweetness of the spider silk. I am thinking of coming to me too.

Unfortunately, it is not so easy to run a spider that loves to bite and mutate. However, one of the great things about human beings is "imitation." Scientists have never given up on the road to exploring the spider silk.

In order to study spider silk, several oolongs have been produced in previous years. A company that researched genetically modified sheep claimed to have implanted the spider silk gene into goats and finally found spider silk in goat milk. The result was that the company later went bankrupt. There are countless cases in which one has found a spider silk and failed.

Until then, another more modest one, a Japanese company called Spiber, a California startup called Bolt Threads, said that he believed that he was about to find spider silk, but the research was still early.

“We made protein microfibers, which were inspired by natural and spider structures,” said Sue Levin, chief marketing officer at Bolt Threads. “But we can copy them indefinitely.”

A true spider silk, the yield is very low, because the spider has the same personality, can not be as high-density breeding as silkworm, so the natural spider silk has been limited. However, because of its physicochemical properties and silk silk, it has obvious advantages, high mechanical strength and good elasticity. Spider silk has broad prospects in the fields of national defense, military and construction.

The method used by Bolt Threads is a bit like brewing beer. They use not the real spider silk, but use genetically modified yeast, water and sugar. Through a series of chemical formulas such as fermentation and transformation, the spider silk is finally synthesized. The molecular structure of the finished product is similar to that of natural spider silk.

The study has allowed Bolt Threads to raise $50 million recently and is working with the outdoor brand Patagonia, which is expected to launch the product, but the details have not yet been announced, but Patagonia's Director of Materials Innovation says everything will be amazing.

Once successful, the spider silk used for garments will be considered the most groundbreaking fabric after nylon. At present, the use of nylon in US military clothing is more common, because nylon strength is also good, but when it encounters high temperature, nylon will melt rather than burn, which is quite dangerous for soldiers. But synthetic spider silk can circumvent this problem, and it will be lighter and stronger.

For Spiber in Japan, it chose the microbial sequence of Bacillus licheniformis to make spider silk. At present, it is also very effective. Spiber has already made a spider silk coat with the Japanese sportswear brand Goldwin. The price is said to be not cheap, about 10,000 RMB, and the sales are placed in The North Face's distribution channel.

Now, the problem that Bolt Threads and Spider are trying to solve now is whether the synthesis method can be put into production in large quantities, and the spiral structure will not be destroyed in the scale. Ideally, spider silk can eventually become a common fabric with the same quality wool or natural silk .