'Killer silk:' Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes a simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes.