Cluster of Excellence "Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)"
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Spider silk has extremely high tensile strength, yet it is also very elastic. Investigating how spiders produce these protein strands, which are superior to all high-performance, man-made fibers, is the topic of a research project by the CISPM Cluster. Dr. Horst Kessler (Carl von Linde Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study) und Dr. Franz Hagn at the 900 MHz NMR Spectrometer of the Bavarian NMR Center in Garching, where key measurements are made.
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