Cognitive textiles
Our collaborator Patricia Flanagan has created a YouTube post to promote the ‘Cognitive Textiles’ project, which the SSRL is really enthusiastic about being involved with.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTE6fAVXWV0
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…
DetailsFibre2Fashion Article
Work at the spider silk research lab was featured in an article in the August Fibre2Fashion magazine (see page 76: https://online.fliphtml5.com/wokmg/hbbs/?fbclid=IwAR04-q2VQLDDi6-_PBR9PqqfhhSYkEcdulcYapnFQKVsC0kabYMkoKMjAkA#p=76).
In it Sean Blamires discusses his initial interests in spider silk research, the current and future applications of new technologies and even how the concept of the Spider Silk Research Lab came about.
Frontiers in Silk Science and Technologies Conference, Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Italy
Between June 12 and 15 2019 I attended the International Silk Conference within Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Italy. The conference covered all matters of silk, covering everything from the History of Silk trade across Europe to advanced materials manufacturing, from the ecology of silk making insects to surgical applications of silk derived products. David Kaplan…
DetailsGlow worm cave expedition
On Septmber 3 2018, Sean Blamires, Jonas Wolff and Deb Kane (Macquarie University) visited the Blue Mountians glow worm cave to sample the glow worm glues and photograph spiders. A sample of the photos are shown…
