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Materials Processing Notebook



Goals

  • Wet-Spin fibers from mixtures of silkworm silk and recombinant functionalized spider silk
  • Wet-Spin fibers from recombinant honeybee silk
  • Construct a post-spin stretch apparatus
  • Characterize all spun fibers
    • Elastic modulus
    • Yield stress
    • Beta-sheet content (FTIR)
  • Create films from recombinant silk
  • Characterize recombinant silk films
    • Elastic modulus
    • Yield Stress

Achievements

  • August 19: co-spin with the automated stretcher:


What to accomplish next

  • Spin fibers from the recombinant spider silk dopes

Protocols

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