There's a lot of effort going into just that, though there are some stumbling blocks researchers are still working their way through before we start seeing production scaled up.
But how about just natural silk with carbon nanotubes? Sure spidersilk is "the greatest" -- but maybe nano-augmented regular silk is better than, well regular silk?
[ed: insert dystopian sci-fi plot of scattered survivors of the nano apocalypse growing bullet proof vests from silk worms found in old industrial (nano)waste sites...]
I meant silkworm-silk. I wonder if silkworms can be made to make regular silk that's augmented with nanotubes for a similar (relative) increase in strength, with similar easy process (shower silk-worms and their food with water with nanotubes etc).
Right. I was wondering if silk worms could be made to produce nano-silk if drenched in nanotube-water, like the spiders (or fed leaves dipped in nanotube-water etc).
[ed: I probably should've written "normal" silk, not natural silk...]
how about silk worms? at least we know how to handle those in bulk.