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Photonic nanojet lenses are spun from spider silk

14 Jul 2020
Spider and lens
Spider sense: a long-legged cellar spider used in the study (left) and the dome lens make using its dragline silk. (Courtesy: Cheng-Yang Liu)
Spider silk has been used by researchers in Taiwan to create tuneable lenses capable of focusing the

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