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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Sheffield : B - Materials Science and Engineering

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Article title

Rheo-attenuated total reflectance infrared spectroscopy: a new tool to study biopolymers

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1039/c0cp02599b

Title of journal

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

3979

ISSN of journal

14639084

Year of publication

2011

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Adopting Nature’s solutions to material production will provide new routes in sustainable wet processing of high performance polymers. Using silk as a model biopolymer we developed a rheo-spectroscopic tool that records both molecular alignment and conformational changes during shear flow. This has revealed the conditions required to spin artificial silks and has been used by industrial partner Oxford Biomaterials to develop better silk feedstocks (stephanie.lesage@oxfordbiomaterials.com). It was also featured as the cover for the British Society of Rheology bulletin as well as receiving interest from rheometer manufacturers (Thermo kevin.barber@thermofisher.com and Malvern Instruments joanne.langridge@malvern.com).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract