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The Silky Way: Biomimetic sensing through changes in structural proteins

Thu, 02/21/2019 - 18:56
Start Date: 
2014
Programme: 
Discovery
End Date: 
2015
Programme Reference: 
13-067
Country: 
Switzerland
Contractor: 
Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
Description: 

The objective of Silky Way is to explore the possibility of using spider dragline silk as sensing element for fibre-based biosensors by transmitting light through silk fibre and monitoring the change in the silk's optical properties induced by biochemical compounds

Application Domain: 
Generic Technologies
Keywords: 
Ariadna
Hardware
Manufacturing
Materials
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