Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler -together with David Kaplan of Tufts University and Joyce Wong of Boston University- has synthesized new variants on silk’s natural structure, and found a method for making further improvements in the synthetic material.
The work stems from a collaboration of civil and environmental engineers, mathematicians, biomedical engineers and musical composers. "We’re trying to approach making materials in a different way" Buehler explains…
°°°°°°°°°°°°°
> Markus Buehler : http://cee.mit.edu/buehler
> David Kaplan : http://engineering.tufts.edu/bme/people/kaplan/index.asp
> Joyce Wong : http://www.bu.edu/bme/people/primary/wong
The work stems from a collaboration of civil and environmental engineers, mathematicians, biomedical engineers and musical composers. "We’re trying to approach making materials in a different way" Buehler explains…
°°°°°°°°°°°°°
> Markus Buehler : http://cee.mit.edu/buehler
> David Kaplan : http://engineering.tufts.edu/bme/people/kaplan/index.asp
> Joyce Wong : http://www.bu.edu/bme/people/primary/wong