Silk Book Available
My book entitled “Silk: Exploring Nature’s Superfibre” is now available through XLIBRIS. Go to: https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/821509-silk to pre-order a copy.
My book entitled “Silk: Exploring Nature’s Superfibre” is now available through XLIBRIS. Go to: https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/821509-silk to pre-order a copy.
‘’Spider and Silk Supply’ is a new spinoff company of SSRL members. It is the only one in existence that can supply Research Institutions and Industries highest quality as spun spider silk, as well live spiders, on requests for all kinds of research and development. For information and orders please visit:http:// https://www.spiderandsilksupply.com/
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…
DetailsOn July 19-20, Sean Blamires, Jain Fang and Min Guo (Deakin University) visited Australian Synchrotron to perform SAXS/WAXS of pre-stretched lacewing, glow worm and spider silks….
From July 1-9 Sean Blamires, Hamish Craig (UNSW), Jonas Wolff (Macquarie University) and Shichang Zhang and Dakota Piorkowski (Tunghai University) attended the 20th International Congress of Arachnology in Golden Colorado. We caught up with many fellow Arachnologists. From July 11-15 Sean Blamires and Hamish Craig visited the Molecular Science (NMR) Facility at Arizona State University…
DetailsFrom June 25 to June 30 I conducted a ‘Silk Biology’ course at the Centro Universitario de Rivera, Rivera, Uruguay with Dr Luis Fernando Garcia, Dr Mariángeles Lacava, Prof Carmen Viera, and Dr Marco Benamú. We had nine students attend from different parts of Uruguay, as well as Argentina and Mexico. The week was intensive,…
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