This is just incredible! Creating new materials with almost diametrically opposite properties (one soluble in water and the other impervious, as he showed in the TED talk) just by adding differenent dopants to proteins as they are being synthesised is just amazing. The imagination boggles!
On 18 April 2016 at 04:36, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > Last Thursday I gave a talk at the Silklab at Tufts University. > > The reason for the Lab’s existence is that silk is a remarkable substance > with remarkable properties and remarkable potential that is only beginning > to be explored. They are doing wacky stuff with silk at the SilkLab, > everything from making biodegradable coffee cups to artificial bone to > implantable devices for delivering drugs. > > Here’s a link to the Silklab page: > > http://ase.tufts.edu/biomedical/unolab/home.html < > http://ase.tufts.edu/biomedical/unolab/home.html> > > And here’s a TED talk by the Silklab’s founder and director, Fiorenzo > Omenetto, on “Silk, the ancient material of the future”: > > > http://www.ted.com/talks/fiorenzo_omenetto_silk_the_ancient_material_of_the_future?language=en > < > http://www.ted.com/talks/fiorenzo_omenetto_silk_the_ancient_material_of_the_future?language=en > > > > Here’s a TEDx talk on what it is to be a “Fab Labs and Global Learning" by > Jean-Michel Molenaar, who until recently ran a maker lab in Grenoble, > France: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCH6F87Rbps > > Perhaps the list would like to extend an invitation to a few people of the > Silklab? I think, for example, that profs Omenetto and Molenaar would be > worth additions. > > Regards, > > jrs > > P.S. The lab has decided to create a small seminar series (which they’re > calling “Cocoon”) to encourage discussion about “What’s Next?” Because a > few people at the lab are fans of my novels, I was the first invited > speaker. I attach the flyer below. > > > > > > -- Narendra Shenoy http://narendrashenoy.blogspot.com
