Prof.
Friedrich Kremer
(Department of Molecular Physics, Leipzig University)
03/07/2017, 15:10
Soft matter and glass formers
oral presentation
`Spider silk is a high-performance fiber with unique mechanical properties which are currently not met by man-made materials. It consists essentially out of two proteins, major ampullate spidroin1 and spidroin2, having alanine-rich blocks interrupted by glycine-rich sequences. The former assembles to $\beta$-sheeted nanocrystals which are embedded in the amorphous chains of the latter and...
