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We deduce a microstructure inspired model for humidity and temperature effects on the mechanical response of spider silks, modelled as a composite material with a hard crystalline and a soft amorphous region. Water molecules decrease the percentage of crosslinks in the softer region inducing a variation of natural configuration of the macromolecules. The resulting kinematic incompatibility between the regions crucially influences the final mechanical response. We demonstrate the predictivity of the model by quantitatively reproducing the experimentally observed behavior
The dielectrophoresis method for trapping and attaching nanoscale double-stranded DNA between nanoelectrodes was developed. The method gives a high yield of trapping single or a few molecules only which enables transport measurements at the single mo
Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spiders main goal is to measure the amplitude of primordial gravitational wa
We present the first systematic study of the stability of the structure and electrical properties of FeCl$_3$ intercalated few-layer graphene to high levels of humidity and high temperature. Complementary experimental techniques such as electrical tr
We review opportunities for stochastic geometric mechanics to incorporate observed data into variational principles, in order to derive data-driven nonlinear dynamical models of effects on the variability of computationally resolvable scales of fluid
The recent discovery of electro-active polymers has shown great promises in the field of soft robotics, and was logically followed by experimental, numerical and theoretical developments. Most of these studies were concerned with systems entirely cov