Spider Silk: Mother Nature’s Bio-Superlens
- Submitting institution
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Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- UoA12_35
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02641
- Title of journal
- Nano Letters
- Article number
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- First page
- 5842
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 1530-6984
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02641
- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Presents Bangor-led world’s first biological superlens from spider silk in collaboration with Prof. Fritz Vollrath (Oxford). Underpinned by NRN113 (£58k), highlighted by MIT technology review, highly publicised by the BBC and other outlets (>49,300 web pages). Led to field growth of investigation of other natural bio-lens, invited talks (CLEO2017, PIERS2017, PIERS2018) and contributed to two new grants capture (Royal Society, UK-China cost-share, 12k, PI: Zengbo Wang) and Centre for Photonics Expertise at Bangor (500k, PI: Zengbo Wang). Also led to new collaborations between (Prof. Lianqing Liu) . Specially featured editorial interview by Microscopy and Analysis magazine (Nov 2018).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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