Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- www.ted.com Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.
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TED is awesome! I'm so glad these talks are now available to the masses via You Tube.
Over a year later, this TED talk still blows my mind. Controlled decay? Amazing!
Amazing... the applications to the medical field are the ones that caught my attention.. I hope to live long enough to see them implemented.
This is an excellent TED talk and I hope those involved in smart materials will get in touch with this man.
I do love all the creative people looking for alternative solutions.
This not only applies to silk, but also a range of protein based materials. Silk is a special case, as it has been used a long time and occurs in nature.
Proteins are the next step up the ladder from polymers. They are more complex to make, but has a wider range of possibilities.
That was brilliant , puts the saying "back to nature" in a whole new light
It's talks like these that make me excited when TED is in my subscription box.
Silk... wow... I can think of so many things to do my research on now.
This stuff has so many uses it blows my mind
Amazing.
I hope this will see real use in the real world soon.
We are poisoning ourselves with plastic and this could be ideal solution for that among other things.
Best luck in your work!
He may not be a flashy showman, but the talk has content! I can't wait to see some products made from this material
This is truly something!!
Fascinating possibilities! I've been thinking about this talk for days since watching.
Cost isn't the question. The relevant question is do we have the resources available, and the values necessary to pursue such advancements for the benefit of everyone.
Fio and David are amazing people.
@Styggunge don't forget, plastic is made from oil, with the prices of oil going up, there's going to be a point where they will be searching for other methods (eventually.. though they will take their sweet time about it)
@doloppost my guess would be "no". I could see it jamming the blend-tech blender.
The next step is to make production composite materials with this
How much does it cost to produce this now and how much can we expect this to cost in the future?
Silk just owns
nice job Fio
@Hrel88 hemps great too......but for a different types of applications....
@groMMit1981 It's probably way more expensive and/or harder to produce. Afaik, they haven't yet figured out how to make it themselves, they just farm silk worms and harvest the silk. I guess this is probably very work-intensive.
@Styggunge Yeah, I wonder how much that disposable silk cup cost to make. It probably, at the moment, isn't anywhere near as cheap as the standard styrofoam cup.
@MrCattlehunter, they did say how it was made. sort of.
the nerd throw at the end was funny
i would throw my money into this
@DrakIems You got the part where it's silkworms, not spiders, right?
Amazing!
@xinlo totally agree
@NickBlackDIN "here's going to be a point where they will be searching for other methods" - Perhaps but not before they have gone through other methods of producing oil type products... Which you already see all around us.
@MrCattlehunter I remember hearing about scientists making goats produce spider silk in their milk, I maybe they could work on something like that ?
@ptanham proabably high right now... but everything gets cheaper when its mass produced/mainstream.
why aren't we using it already???
This is awesome, the future is exciting :D
@ilotitto Yeah, and we've just used it for kimonos and ties for ages. Go us!
great
How much does it cost to produce this?
Nice
Missing a pretty important piece of information - how expensive is it?
now how to produce a ton of silk on a large scale without costing millions is the tricky part I guessing?
The title needs to read Hemp the ancient material of the future.
800th like and this is remarkable indeed!!!!
they really should research hemp
HOW MUCH does it cost?
@cristoretornebiblia Please upload that video.
;)
@startreking2007 3 people got that reference. :P
Maybe can use to build the z build up film
wonder if they can be programmed to degrade plastics. ..you could sprinkle some in those landfills.
@hcortens There are people all over the world working on making such a change. Check out the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement!
没看懂,,晚上回来再看一遍
银真是好材料
Please, someone in a first world country develop a composite material using silk and hemp.
@Uraffyouruse As long as it is reusable. Probably expensive.
@drche420 because it's not well known, and not yet massively created.
ok, i hear pro pro pro pro but what are the cons? Why isn't this replacing plastics right now?
@ddnguyen278
I'm think more 'programed release of cancer medication' personally
You got to love TED, its like organic food for the brain...only better....organic food that tastes like junk food.
@TheKillyjoy we can hope
But... Will it blend?
If it is not more costeffective than plastic, this will never see massproduktion.
HO~LY SHIT...... i want all that stuff now!
juz dont let it falls into bad hands~ =)
@MrCattlehunter I thought they'd sorted the proteins binding themselves so just protein water mix leave to dry sorta jazz? :( I hate talks like this, look at this, wow, awesome, amazing....are we using it? nope.
@GRNoam and oil companies own the goverments, good point.
i wonder... did the free samples contain the worms or was it only cocoons? :D
@groMMit1981 probably cause you would need a humongous amount of silkworms? xD
@mordinvan Get small robots to tie silk strands around the cancer cells and fish them out?
This is what happens when 400 years of chemistry meets 4Billion years of evolution.
@justicetrooper Silk gets ruined in water too.
@gaiagale Silk is just protein and water. It would be like spitting on the sidewalk. Yes, it's disgusting and unsightly at first, but it won't harm the environment at all.
@TheKillyjoy oh for crying out loud... LOL
@hcortens More correctly, the short term profit motive that is overly valued and rewarded in our society is the reason that is the case. In a monetary system, false currency costs limit technological advancement and efficiency in favor of greed, waste, fraud, abuse and destruction. A resource base economy recognizes that false authority or human opinion do not matter when solving technical problems common to all humans.
LSD silk blotter, yes pl0x.
Anyone else doing Ms.Jones hw
@dvdragon Not if we mass produce the shit out of it...
Because materials from fossil fuels are still profitable and those corporations don't want to silk to be used they want to hold on to their variable commodity that they can set an arbitrary price on
@Uraffyouruse
Eddible, biodegradeable and can store contraceptics inside. Now that would be something.
Right, whithout any guilt I don't know until his cost reach 120$/Kg and the life of many worms!
@mahatmaBit ...what?
I still hate spiders.
@Neylonx
So to the newscientist channel, and you'll maybe get the joke.
silk lol HEMP FTW
Just waiting for someone to ask how this is going to cure cancer.....
future condoms:p
This silk cup can be thrown away without any guilt
*applause*
Really? Guilty about throwing away a foam cup, then applauding him that silk does that BUT NOT after talking about integrating into the body? pff. hippies.
HEMP > SILK....FOOLS!!!!!!!!!
haha, silly silk it thinks it's hemp.
TED talkers always make such awful jokes. it's okay to just stick to the information you know? as long as it's interesting.