*Okay: socks. Indestructible socks, ladies and gentlemen.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/06/graphene-spiders-super-silk
"Spraying spiders with atom-thick graphene or carbon nanotubes infuses their webs with "unprecedented" super-strength – enough to catch a falling plane from the sky.
"Researchers at the University of Trento in Italy found that combining 300 nanometre-wide graphene particles or nanotubes with water, and spraying the solution onto arachnids, had surprising effects on their silk.
"Through a process that is not yet entirely clear, some of the 15 Pholcidae spiders in the study created webs that where 3.5 times as tough as the best silk known to nature – that of the giant riverine orb spider. It's also on a par with the other toughest material known to nature – limpet teeth.
"Some of the spiders in the study produced poorer-quality silk, reported Trento's professor of solid and structural mechanics Nicola Pugno, who led the study, but a significant number produced what can effectively be described as "super silk". "We find that the resulting silk has improved mechanical properties," Pungo writes in the study. "The highest toughness modulus for a fibre, surpassing synthetic polymeric high performance fibres (EG Kevlar 49TM 30) and even the current toughest knotted fibres."
"Pugno is currently unsure exactly how the graphene, or its properties, became infused with the silk, reports New Scientist – the experiment seems to have been largely speculative…"
