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Fritz Vollrath

Nationality

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Fritz Vollrath is part of the 2016 1st Semester cohort at STIAS.

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STIAS Lecture Series 2016: Fritz Vollrath – Unraveling Spider Webs and Silks

Event

STIAS Lecture Series 2016: Fritz Vollrath – Unraveling Spider Webs and Silks

Professor Fritz Vollrath from the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and current STIAS fellow will present a talk with the title Unraveling Spider Webs and Silks Abstract Spider silks, like the silks of other arthropods, use proteins as the structural components and water as the solvent.
 Spider webs inspiring soft robotics

Publication

Spider webs inspiring soft robotics

Vollrath, Fritz and Thiemo Krink. 2020. Spider webs inspiring soft robotics. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 17(172), 20200569. https://doi.org/10....