SABIP

Silks as Biomimetic Ideals for Polymers: SABIP

Coordinatore	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	2˙258˙272 €
EC contributo	2˙258˙272 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2008-AdG
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-01-01   -   2014-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD  Organization address address: University Offices, Wellington Square city: OXFORD postcode: OX1 2JD contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Stephen Cognome: Conway Email: send email Telefono: +44 1865 289800 Fax: +44 1865 289801	UK (OXFORD)	hostInstitution	2˙258˙272.00
2	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD  Organization address address: University Offices, Wellington Square city: OXFORD postcode: OX1 2JD contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Fritz Cognome: Vollrath Email: send email Telefono: -273037 Fax: -312268	UK (OXFORD)	hostInstitution	2˙258˙272.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Silk offers an attractive combination of strength and toughness coupled with environmentally benign processing and degradation. However, we lack key insights into the interactions between a silk s mechanical behaviour, its chemical composition and its fabrication processes. Hence practically, this ignorance impedes the development of synthetic and recombinant silks. More fundamentally, silks can provide us with novel insights into other elastomeric natural protein polymers. Hence natural silk technology provides important insights both for the production of industrial bio-polymers and for understanding/copying other biological materials. I propose an extensive bio-mimetic programme to study silk diversity in order to gain new insights into the fundamentals of silk structure-property-functions relationships. WP Biomining will discover and screen silks with interesting material properties and gene-sequences with the proximate goal to discover novel silk types and the ultimate goal to identify silks suitable for commercial production. WP Material Analysis will focus on the acquisition of detailed data on silk material and chemical properties and will be using state-of-the-art measuring techniques. WP Multiscale Modeling is integral to the experimental programme in order to maximise all information obtained and optimise test conditions in order to fully derive and validate structure-property relations using our novel analysis techniques. Finally, WP Applications will disseminate our findings to colleagues in academia and companies throughout Europe. The proposed research will allow us to derive and validate a consistent set of quantitative structure-property relations for silk , which consider the evolutionary history of the different silks and their highly diverse genetic blueprints. This in turn will allow us to predict the mechanical properties of any silk at any stage during its natural and/or biomimetic production process.'