Strongest known biological material
Who
Material from limpet teeth
Where
Not Applicable ()
When
The highest tensile strength for a biological material is a 4.9 GPa, which is material from limpet teeth, discovered by a research team from the University of Portsmouth led by Dr Asa Barber, and published in Interface on 18 February 2015. Dr Barber comments on the competition: "One of my colleagues on the paper, from Italy, found some exotic spider silk that was about 4.5 GPa, and we measured about 5 GPa."