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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

  • sDSC_0210

  • Nephila pilipes

  • Setting up

  • Heterpoda venatoria experiment

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