nano & biomaterials lab

Very excited to give a keynote presentation today at the Society of Engineering Science 2023 Annual meeting in Minneapolis, 2023ses.com. "Multi-Scale Experimental Determination of Structure–Property Relations in Spider Silk, A Hierarchical Protein Material"

Very excited to announce that our department is hiring a tenure-track experimental materials scientist! Online application and more details here: jobs.wm.edu/postings/56006 Application deadline: Nov. 1, 2023

Our lab has PhD student openings for Fall 2023! Contact schniepp@wm.edu for more information. Our program is very attractive (stipend, campus, location) — and you can drive the next round of nano & biomaterials breakthroughs. wm.edu/as/appliedscie…

The Flat Hat has a beautiful write-up on our recent spider silk research breakthroughs: flathatnews.com/2022/09/12/bio…

The National Science Foundation features our recent breakthrough in revealing the molecular structure of spider silk using p-Raman, p-FTIR and NMR spectroscopies combined with advanced models. beta.nsf.gov/news/new-resea…

WYDaily covers our recent silk research: wydaily.com/news/2022/07/3…

Today, our PhD student Ben Skopic's paper on the amazing adhesive behavior of the brown recluse spider's tape silk was published in Materials Horizons! We will never think the same way again about sticky tapes: doi.org/10.1039/D2MH00… Another beautiful example of bio-inspiration.

@RennerResearch That is HUGE!!! Congratulations, Julie!

I am absolutely delighted to announce that my promotion to associate professor with tenure at #CWRU was officially approved 🥳🎉🍾. I will be the third women in the department to earn that title. I have many people to thank so here it goes⬇️

Major breakthrough just published by our lab in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/cSyi3. ::: Molecular structure of spider silk revealed with unprecedented detail ::: Improved method to determine structure of proteins ::: nature.com/articles/s4146…

We can also be found in LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/nano-b…

TV feature of our Small paper on WTKR by anchor Anthony Sabella: wtkr.com/news/this-spid…

Beautiful paper by our PhD student Dinidu Perera in Small (2021 impact factor: 15.153) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sm… Most detailed experimental study of the local nanomechanics of spider silk to date! First determination of adhesion strength between individual spider silk nanofibrils.

So proud that our spider silk work is featured this week on the radio show "With Good Reason": withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/replay…