HONG KONG: Scientists have discovered a natural material stronger than titanium, Kevlar and even spider silk. In fact, measurements suggest it’s the strongest biological material known.
The remarkable material was discovered in a place you might not have expected — in the teeth of a tiny, vegetarian sea snail called the limpet, reports a team of scientists led by Asa Barber, a professor in the school of engineering at the University of Portsmouth in England.
Limpets are marine creatures with conical shells about five centimetres in diameter. Like garden snails, they use a foot to glide along under the shell.
They eat algae on the surface of rocks and have found “an ingenious way of feeding
