Seevix Material Sciences ,The Innovator's startup of the week, has developed a new kind of #biopolymer material called SVX that is inspired by #spidersilk. When integrated into various materials SVX enhances their physical properties, enabling the development of sustainable, lighter, thinner, and tougher composites which can be used as building blocks for high-performance products.
The Israeli start-up, which was launched in 2014 and has raised around $18 million, emerged from research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted by Israeli scientist Shmulik Ittah, Phd, who together with. Shlomzion S., PhD, co-founded Seevix. The resulting biopolymer is a unique material that self-assembles and is endowed with the superior natural properties of spider silk, says Shen, the company’s CEO.
It is a crowded field. More than a dozen other biotech companies are also trying to emulate spider silk, which is up to five times stronger than steel and extremely elastic. Shen says Seevix’s SVX is unique, due to its green self-assembly process, which mimics nature and does not seek to force component proteins to bind together with attendant weak links in the chain.
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3wI am so impressed with what you are accomplishing!