Boiling Point Podcast- Spider Silk Research special, with Sean Blamires

New podcast is out: Spider silk special!Spider silk is one of the toughest materials on earth – it’s super light, durable and sustainable. Is spider silk the raw material for clothes and protective gear of the future? Cat chats to Dr Sean Blamires whose research explores ways to harness the spider silk’s special features for…

DST visit to SSRL cancelled

On Monday April 6 Scientists from the Department of Defence Science and Technology (https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/) was scheduled to visit our UNSW Facilities and personnel to initiate discussions on new spider silk initiatives with a focus on Defence. A full day of talks (by Sean Blamires, Patrick Spicer, Patricia Flanagan, Sean Li and others) and visits to…

AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019

Collaborative work between the Spider Silk Research Lab and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University will be presented at the upcoming (December 9-12) Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy, in Melbourne.

See https://spie.org/AU/conferencedetails/aos-optical-fibre-technology-acoft-and-optics- lasers-spectroscopy-acols?SSO=1https://spie.org/AU/conferencedetails/aos-optical-fibre-technology-acoft-and-optics-lasers-spectroscopy-acols?SSO=1