SSRL collaborator headlines the ACS youtube channel
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
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
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…
DetailsI 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…
DetailsAnother application of spider silk we (in collaboration with Trish Flanagan and Pat Spicer) are exploring is its incorporation into wearables to create new adaptable features in different kinds of clothing and equipment.
Here Trish is isolating the silk collected from Trichonephila to weave them into yarns for hybridization with other fibres.