Hannes C. Schniepp

Very proud of my PhD student Jake Silliman, whose extremely challenging experiment succeeded: mechanical tensile tests on the thinnest natural spider silk nanofibrils ever — only 5 nm thin, discovered in my lab by Dr. Sean Koebley. doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…

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…

So good to be at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston again after a few years! Gave two talks featuring our silk research already today. Are you also at MRS and want to meet? Message me! #MRS

I recently handled my 25th manuscript as an editor. Very insightful and rewarding to see the peer reviewing process from this angle. #plosone

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

First we had to get ResearcherIDs. Shortly after, this got switched to Publons (with new IDs). Now being switched back to WOS (with yet another ID). No documentation (but lots of info on all these "wonderful" new products). @clarivate, this is so below my expectations+standards.

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…

What was supposed to be a 9-hr non-stop flight turned into a traumatizing 55-hr travel nightmare for my family of 5. Crying kids, sleepless nights, hauling tons of bags—all because airline tried to make an extra buck: overbooked our flight, then tried to up-sell to business class

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

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.

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…

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…