I am close to completing a book about Silk to be published by the SSRL. All going well it will be out early/mid 2021. The content is based around my Lecture series presented in Rivera, Uruguay in 2018. Here’s a small preview: What is silk? Silk is a natural proteinaceous secretion of many kinds of…
Spider silks we supply Science and Research Priorities Spider dragline (or major ampullate) silk is the world’s toughest material. It combines high strength and extensibility in unique ways to outperform all other natural and synthetic materials per unit mass, including Nylon, Kevlar® and silkworm silks. Furthermore it has unique properties as a highly optically and…
SSRL collaborator Anna-Christin Joel headlines the American Chemical Society’s youtube channel with the video “Spider combs tame unruly nanofibers”. See:
https://lnkd.in/ghViw6G
Our recombinant spider silk program aims to create recombinant Masp1 and MaSp2-like proteins to build platforms for making functional materials.
