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SUMMARY:Silk: Spiders\, silkworms\, and advanced materials - David Porter\
 , Department of Zoology\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20131121T160000Z
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CONTACT:Stephen Walley
DESCRIPTION:Silk fibres have evolved over millions of years to have excell
 ent mechanical properties of strength and toughness\, but is all the inter
 est in these 'super materials' justified?  After looking at the question o
 f whether silk fibre properties can be scaled up to bulk materials\, I out
 line some of our work on lessons to be learned from silk as a model protei
 n material and natural silk structures such as cocoons.
LOCATION:Mott Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory
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