Spider Silk Research

August 18, 2015Media, News, Events

Sean Blamires and Madeleine Blamires recently travelled to Taiwan and collected silks from a range of Taiwanese spiders. Sean visitied the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center to conduct analsyes.

Tunghai University

Dolomedes raptor experiment
Heterpoda venatoria experiment
Heterpoda venatoria experiment
Heterpoda venatoria experiment
Heterpoda venatoria experiment
Heterpoda venatoria experiment
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Silk collecting
Silk collecting
Silk collecting
Silk collecting
Silk collecting

Industrial Scientific Research Institute

Silk mechanical testing
Silk mechanical testing
Silk mechanical testing
Silk mechanical testing

National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

Using the SAXS Beamline
Using the SAXS Beamline
Using the SAXS Beamline
Using the SAXS Beamline
Using the SAXS Beamline
Samples for x-ray diffraction
Samples for x-ray diffraction
Samples for x-ray diffraction
Analyses
Analyses
Analyses
Setting up
Setting up
Setting up

Taiwanese spiders

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Female Argiope keyserlingi
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Nephila pilipes
Setting up
Heterpoda venatoria experiment

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