SPICE: Silk Processing In Controlled Environments
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Materials Science and Engineering
Abstract
This fellowship will be used to assemble a new UK team of physical and life scientists with the aim of turning natural processes into engineering applications. Our goal is to discover new ways of sustainably processing naturally sourced materials which will in turn reduce the environmental footprint of oil-based polymers.
The majority of natural materials are grown. Silks, by definition, are spun. My own work has shown that in many ways silk spinning has more in common with industrial polymer extrusion; however there is one key difference, environmental impact. Silk is a high performance, biodegradable biopolymer spun at room temperature, with the only waste product being water. We have also recently demonstrated this process occurs at an energy cost around a thousand times less than a typical polymer. Such a unique source of inspiration is now more valuable than ever, as global industry faces increasing pressure from consumers and governments to find new ways of producing high quality yet fully sustainable materials.
The overall objective of this proposal is to develop the means to control the processing of biopolymers into structures with predictable properties. To achieve this, my team and I will use the state-of-the-art characterisation lab I have already assembled. This permits us to study our test materials before, during and after processing. First we will design a series of biomimetic spinning devices based on the shape and processing conditions of a natural silk gland. This device will be validated by spinning small amounts of native silk feedstocks with the aim of producing fibres indistinguishable from those spun naturally. Secondly we will use artificially produced silk feedstocks, which can be obtained in large quantities, to spin fibres with predictable properties and in amounts suitable for investigating new industrial applications. Thirdly using our knowledge of how best to process a silk feedstock, we will then investigate non-fibre based processing of these materials, namely blade coating to make films and 3D printing to make complex structures. Finally the team will subject a range of artificial biopolymer feedstocks to our processing techniques and assess their potential in terms of sustainability and performance.
The outputs from this project will encompass technological achievements and scientific insights. Technologically, the development of a biomimetic spinning rig will be the first of its kind and should be valuable as well as high profile. We will discover if an artificial feedstock can be processed into a material with properties equal to, if not better than, its natural progenitor. Extension of our spinning platform into other processing technologies will answer a highly controversial question "is silk a good material, or just a good fibre?" Investigating other biological materials, which have uses from food to healthcare, will reveal if it is possible to spin a biopolymer optimised for growth. Industry will be engaged throughout the project to identify we can learn from a system with 400 million years of research and development. Together, my team and I will provide an unprecedented understanding of how to sustainably process naturally sourced materials and the tools to drive this science into the 21st century.
The majority of natural materials are grown. Silks, by definition, are spun. My own work has shown that in many ways silk spinning has more in common with industrial polymer extrusion; however there is one key difference, environmental impact. Silk is a high performance, biodegradable biopolymer spun at room temperature, with the only waste product being water. We have also recently demonstrated this process occurs at an energy cost around a thousand times less than a typical polymer. Such a unique source of inspiration is now more valuable than ever, as global industry faces increasing pressure from consumers and governments to find new ways of producing high quality yet fully sustainable materials.
The overall objective of this proposal is to develop the means to control the processing of biopolymers into structures with predictable properties. To achieve this, my team and I will use the state-of-the-art characterisation lab I have already assembled. This permits us to study our test materials before, during and after processing. First we will design a series of biomimetic spinning devices based on the shape and processing conditions of a natural silk gland. This device will be validated by spinning small amounts of native silk feedstocks with the aim of producing fibres indistinguishable from those spun naturally. Secondly we will use artificially produced silk feedstocks, which can be obtained in large quantities, to spin fibres with predictable properties and in amounts suitable for investigating new industrial applications. Thirdly using our knowledge of how best to process a silk feedstock, we will then investigate non-fibre based processing of these materials, namely blade coating to make films and 3D printing to make complex structures. Finally the team will subject a range of artificial biopolymer feedstocks to our processing techniques and assess their potential in terms of sustainability and performance.
The outputs from this project will encompass technological achievements and scientific insights. Technologically, the development of a biomimetic spinning rig will be the first of its kind and should be valuable as well as high profile. We will discover if an artificial feedstock can be processed into a material with properties equal to, if not better than, its natural progenitor. Extension of our spinning platform into other processing technologies will answer a highly controversial question "is silk a good material, or just a good fibre?" Investigating other biological materials, which have uses from food to healthcare, will reveal if it is possible to spin a biopolymer optimised for growth. Industry will be engaged throughout the project to identify we can learn from a system with 400 million years of research and development. Together, my team and I will provide an unprecedented understanding of how to sustainably process naturally sourced materials and the tools to drive this science into the 21st century.
Planned Impact
This Fellowship will support an emerging area of UK research and develop new ways to engage with industry and take science from the bench-top to the factory floor. Discovering new ways to process biologically sourced materials in a sustainable manner will have a broad scientific, technological and potentially environmental impact, affecting industries that depend on biopolymers, the researchers employed on the grant and several academic communities (see Academic Beneficiaries) and the general public.
Impact on the Economy
Development of novel technologies for the controlled extrusion of biopolymers will have several impacts in industry. From the generation of patents to products and the potential formation of spin-out companies the initial outputs will be manifest in the high tech silk industry. This is a market predicted to be worth billions and has several UK companies invested in this area (e.g. www.xiros.eu.com, www.oxfordbiomaterials.com), primarily in healthcare sectors. If it is possible to control the processing of a range of biopolymers the impact will extend to other industries, for example medical (collagens), food (soy) and materials (cellulose). The knowledge generated from this project will also potentially improve techniques surrounding the design and wet-processing of novel synthetic polymers enabling access to new low energy, sustainable routes to fabrication. Additionally the tools developed to analyse these materials during processing has already generated interest from UK instrument manufacturers wishing to move into this area.
Impact on society
Spiders and silk is a topic continually surrounded by public interest. I am passionate about using my research insights to inspire young audiences to undertake a career in STEM subject areas and I will foster the same enthusiasm in my team. I have always found that the general public is interested in high-quality research at the interface of the physical and life sciences. This inherent public interest will be focussed by school visits, general exhibitions, media interactions through television, radio and press and a website dedicated to promoting this exciting research.
The international collaborations supported through this proposal will actively raise the global profile of UK as well as providing the researchers involved with valuable collaborative experience and knowledge transfer between well-regarded academic institutions.
Impact on People
Specific beneficiaries include myself, who will establish a new research group, and the 3 PDRAs and technician who will gain employment and further their careers through EPSRC funding. All researchers will benefit from working at a world leading research institution and learning skills that cross the boundaries of engineering and the physical and life sciences. The research will also impact the training of undergraduate students through exposure to lectures, classes, tutorials and research projects carried out within the lab. It will also engage graduate students through masters and doctoral training centre project supervision.
Impact on the Economy
Development of novel technologies for the controlled extrusion of biopolymers will have several impacts in industry. From the generation of patents to products and the potential formation of spin-out companies the initial outputs will be manifest in the high tech silk industry. This is a market predicted to be worth billions and has several UK companies invested in this area (e.g. www.xiros.eu.com, www.oxfordbiomaterials.com), primarily in healthcare sectors. If it is possible to control the processing of a range of biopolymers the impact will extend to other industries, for example medical (collagens), food (soy) and materials (cellulose). The knowledge generated from this project will also potentially improve techniques surrounding the design and wet-processing of novel synthetic polymers enabling access to new low energy, sustainable routes to fabrication. Additionally the tools developed to analyse these materials during processing has already generated interest from UK instrument manufacturers wishing to move into this area.
Impact on society
Spiders and silk is a topic continually surrounded by public interest. I am passionate about using my research insights to inspire young audiences to undertake a career in STEM subject areas and I will foster the same enthusiasm in my team. I have always found that the general public is interested in high-quality research at the interface of the physical and life sciences. This inherent public interest will be focussed by school visits, general exhibitions, media interactions through television, radio and press and a website dedicated to promoting this exciting research.
The international collaborations supported through this proposal will actively raise the global profile of UK as well as providing the researchers involved with valuable collaborative experience and knowledge transfer between well-regarded academic institutions.
Impact on People
Specific beneficiaries include myself, who will establish a new research group, and the 3 PDRAs and technician who will gain employment and further their careers through EPSRC funding. All researchers will benefit from working at a world leading research institution and learning skills that cross the boundaries of engineering and the physical and life sciences. The research will also impact the training of undergraduate students through exposure to lectures, classes, tutorials and research projects carried out within the lab. It will also engage graduate students through masters and doctoral training centre project supervision.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation, Project Partner)
- Aarhus University (Collaboration)
- Spinnova (Collaboration)
- New University of Lisbon (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Leibniz Association (Collaboration)
- Oxford Biomaterials Ltd. (Collaboration)
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (Collaboration)
- Georgetown University (Project Partner)
- Oxford Biomaterials Ltd (Project Partner)
- Ghent University (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Christopher Holland (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Bauer G
(2014)
Investigating the rheological properties of native plant latex.
in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Boulet-Audet M
(2015)
Identification and classification of silks using infrared spectroscopy.
in The Journal of experimental biology
Boulet-Audet M
(2014)
Silk protein aggregation kinetics revealed by Rheo-IR.
in Acta biomaterialia
Boulet-Audet M
(2016)
Dry-Spun Silk Produces Native-Like Fibroin Solutions.
in Biomacromolecules
Brif A
(2020)
Dynamic Photo-cross-linking of Native Silk Enables Macroscale Patterning at a Microscale Resolution.
in ACS biomaterials science & engineering
Castro AP
(2016)
Combined numerical and experimental biomechanical characterization of soft collagen hydrogel substrate.
in Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine
Fraternali F
(2020)
Tensegrity Modelling and the High Toughness of Spider Dragline Silk.
in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
Greving I
(2020)
Structural Diversity of Native Major Ampullate, Minor Ampullate, Cylindriform, and Flagelliform Silk Proteins in Solution.
in Biomacromolecules
Guan J
(2016)
Glass transitions in native silk fibres studied by dynamic mechanical thermal analysis.
in Soft matter
Hodgkinson R
(2022)
Extensional flow affecting shear viscosity: Experimental evidence and comparison to models
in Journal of Rheology
| Title | Archival Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of various material systems. |
| Description | SEM Images featured in the BBC series called 'Big and Small'. Produced by Furnace Films for BBC4. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/media/Archival_Scanning_Electron_Microscope_SEM_images_of_vario... |
| Title | Archival Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of various material systems. |
| Description | SEM Images featured in the BBC series called 'Big and Small'. Produced by Furnace Films for BBC4. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/media/Archival_Scanning_Electron_Microscope_SEM_images_of_vario... |
| Description | This grant has really helped develop and establish a world-leading research group in silk in the UK. It has also facilitated bringing together a community of silk researchers from across the globe, increasing collaborations and enabling us to tackle and important and interesting topic on an international and interdisciplinary scale. This grant has generated a considerable amount of research, supporting over 35 associated publications in a wide range of journals. In general, we have really progressed our understanding of how silk is spun, to the point that we are able to replicate silk spinning in the lab and produce fibres that have properties that meet and even exceed that of a natural silk (paper in preparation). Below are three key findings from the fellowship, although you are encouraged to look through the list of publications and visit our website (www.naturalmaterialgroup.com) for more information. Our first rheology specific paper, (Laity, P. R., Gilks, S. E., & Holland, C. (2015). Rheological behaviour of native silk feedstocks. Polymer, 67, 28-39. doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2015.04.049) addressed the fact that biomimetic silk fibre development is hindered due to the lack of clear design criteria due to high variability in natural unspun silk feedstocks. This technical challenge was met by testing the largest population of silkworm feedstocks to date (n=150), producing statistical distributions of a range of flow properties for use in modelling and bio-inspired protein processing applications. Industrially relevant recognition was received via invited presentations and a Scientific Advisory Board offer to Holland by one of the leading artificial silk production companies. The work also contributed towards a €4M H2020 Open FET research project involving 2 further SME's (Holland PCO) and an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship position (McLeish EP/N031431/1). Using our knowledge of how to process a silk we published the following paper (Shimanovich, U, et al. (2017). Silk micrococoons for protein stabilisation and molecular encapsulation. Nature Communications, 8. doi:10.1038/ncomms15902). Here the transport, delivery and protection of sensitive biological molecules, such as antibiotics and vaccines is a global healthcare challenge. Harnessing unspun silk's unique shear sensitivity, and flow processing it through a specialised microfluidic droplet generator, we produced microcapsules which helped stabilise and prevent denaturation of a range of commercially relevant cargo proteins. Our approach significantly extended these materials room temperature shelf life, in some cases from hours to months. This work was patented (WO2016034730A1) and licensing discussions have been held with 2 companies (Oxford Biomaterials Ltd and Fluidic Analytics) whilst also receiving global media attention (10+ media outlets https://www.altmetric.com/details/22197130). As a final example of our curiosity as to understanding how silk is spun naturally we published the paper (Sparkes, J., & Holland, C. (2017). Analysis of the pressure requirements for silk spinning reveals a pultrusion dominated process. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00409-7). Proper replication of natural silk production unlocks access to sustainable, high performance fibre manufacture that surpasses modern approaches to polymer spinning. Combining FE modelling and validating with two unique experimental setups, this paper demonstrates that silk is pulled, not pushed, during spinning. This has both general public and industrial impact, i.e. silk is not squeezed from the animal like toothpaste and classical artificial silk extrusion needs to be replaced by pultrusion. The work received widespread coverage in the media, such as the Times (and 10+ media outlets https://www.altmetric.com/details/26300571) and resulted in invited talks in Finland (HYBER Symposium) |
| Exploitation Route | The research outcomes from this project have helped underpin a more detailed understanding of natural silk proteins and how they respond to flow. Practically it has defined the processing space of a silk, uncovering the different factors that can bring about solidification of this material. Theoretically it has generated important information that has helped guide those conducting computer simulations of natural silk spinning. Together this work would provide the basis for a new range of low energy input artificial spinning devices which depart from the industrial norm and look more towards natural processing technologies. |
| Sectors | Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| URL | http://www.naturalmaterialsgroup.com |
| Description | The impacts from this research have spanned beyond academia in several ways. As outlined in the planned impact section, these are broadly split into three key areas: Impact on the Economy The research developed in this project has forwarded our collective understanding of how silk is spun, more specifically how a silk protein can be processed in a manner to which prevent or induce solidification. This led to a patent on the creation of protein "micro cocoons" which has been considered for licencing by two companies. Furthermore the capabilities and insights generated from the group in terms of silk processing has led to increased interactions, knowledge exchange, visits and research with many of the leading high-tech silk companies in the UK, Europe and US. More recently, Dr Holland has contributed towards the founding of a UK company, Spintex Engineering Ltd. looking to produce artificial silks from high quality feedstocks which has already received funding from the EU to develop its technology and has been recently awarded mulitple prizes for it's technolody. Impact on society There have been several opportunities to disseminate the findings from this project and engage with those outside of academia with an aim to change their perspectives and appreciation of what can be learnt from nature. In terms of interactions with the general public, from a grass roots perspective several outreach activities with schools occurred every year, encouraging students to uptake STEM subjects and in particular those from widening participation areas and underrepresented demographics. The reach of this impact was at a national scale and several thousand students. From a perspective of media dissemination, the group has been recognised as a source of UK expertise regarding silk, with several appearances on TV, Radio and in press, not only discussing the work that has arisen as a direct result of funding from this grant, but also for comment on other developments in the global arena of silk research. The reach of this form of impact extended to several million individuals. Impact on People The receipt of this fellowship has undoubtedly helped accelerate and progress the career of the recipient Dr Holland. It has facilitated a change of institution (Oxford to Sheffield), foundation and consolidation of an independent research group and enabled a bidirectional transfer of expertise (biological) to a new environment (engineering) thus enriching the overall academic community and increasing the interdisciplinary of the institution. This move has also resulted in the offering of a permanent academic contract and has already resulted in a promotion in recognition of the personal, professional and research achievements obtained during the fellowship (lecturer to senior lecturer). Regarding development of those other team members employed, all have gone directly into research positions and have benefitted from the various types of training and personal development opportunities supported by this grant. In terms of the engagement with students, we had over 35 undergraduate and masters students conducting substantial research projects in the group during the course of this fellowship, all of whom benefitted from this cross-disciplinary environment. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Economic |
| Description | H2020 Research In Action: Future Emerging Technologies OPEN |
| Amount | € 3,700,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 713475 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | Small Grant |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RG130797 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| End | 02/2015 |
| Title | Dataset for: Spinning Beta Silks Requires Both pH Activation and Extensional Stress |
| Description | Data from the publication Spinning Beta Silks Requires Both pH Activation and Extensional StressData that links silks' processing and performance by spinning a native silk feedstock into a fiber that exceeds the natural mechanical properties controlling just two parameters; pH and extensional flow, is presented. This allows to link previous experimental and modeling hypothesis surrounding silk's pH responsiveness directly to controlling multiscale hierarchical structure development during spinning through rate of work input. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_for_Spinning_Beta_Silks_Requires_Both_pH_Activa... |
| Title | Dataset for: Spinning Beta Silks Requires Both pH Activation and Extensional Stress |
| Description | Data from the publication Spinning Beta Silks Requires Both pH Activation and Extensional StressData that links silks' processing and performance by spinning a native silk feedstock into a fiber that exceeds the natural mechanical properties controlling just two parameters; pH and extensional flow, is presented. This allows to link previous experimental and modeling hypothesis surrounding silk's pH responsiveness directly to controlling multiscale hierarchical structure development during spinning through rate of work input. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_for_Spinning_Beta_Silks_Requires_Both_pH_Activa... |
| Description | Collaboration: Cambridge University |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was to help develop microfluidic devices for the controlled solidification of silk proteins. C. Holland supported this effort by producing native silk samples for testing and provided insight into the device development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This was to help develop microfluidic devices for the controlled solidification of silk proteins. T.Knowles supported this effort with access to his microfluidics laboratory and helped fabricate some flow focusing devices for testing. |
| Impact | A patent was produced (WO/2016/034730) alongside a publication (Nature Communications). This was a highly interdisciplinary project, with Biologists, Materials Scientists, Chemists, Physicists, Engineers and Biochemists involved. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | Aarhus University |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | Leibniz Association |
| Department | Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | New University of Lisbon |
| Department | António Xavier Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | Oxford Biomaterials Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | Spinnova |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Diseases (NDORMS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | Department of Biomedical Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: H2020 FLIPT Consortia |
| Organisation | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Holland is the principal Co-coordinating Officer of this H2020 FET OPEN RIA consortia. He leads and co-ordinates activities as part of this EU grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of a diverse set of organisations linked through the common theme of polymers, their processing and a global vision to improve both in order to meet future challenges of polymer security, energy availability and environmental impact. Collaboration is inherent to the ethos of the consortia and communication tasks, project meetings and interparticipant WP design ensures our effectiveness to achieve deliverables. Every member complements the whole thorough their interdisciplinary specialisation comprising of multi-technique characterisation (USFD, UOXF, VTT, AU, SPN), modelling (IPF, SPN), synthesis (USFD, VTT, ITQB) and commercialisation (OBM, SPN). |
| Impact | This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration: Oxford University |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have provided sample preparation skills and advice to the preparation of certain types of silks |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners have provided raw material (spider silks) as well as analytical cpabilities (DSC and DSF) |
| Impact | Mulitdisciplinary: Biology, Materials Science, Polymer Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Multiple joint publications, please refer to publications section for complete list. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Title | SILK PROTEIN STRUCTURES |
| Description | The present invention provides a capsule having a shell of material that comprises an assembly of a silk protein, such as an assembly that is a non-aggregated assembly of the silk protein, such as an assembly where the a-helix, ß-sheet (native) and random coil content is at least 55%. Also provided are methods for preparing the capsule, which comprises the step of contacting a flow of a first phase and a flow of a second phase in a channel, thereby to generate in the channel a dispersion of discrete regions, preferably droplets, of the second phase in the first phase, wherein the second phase comprises a silk protein suitable for forming an assembly of a protein, thereby to form a capsule shell at the boundary of the discrete region, wherein the first and second phases are immiscible. |
| IP Reference | WO2016034730 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | It has lead to a new line of research for the academics involved. |
| Company Name | SPINTEX ENGINEERING LIMITED |
| Description | Spintex, a spin out from the University of Oxford, manufactures pure and tough silk fibres and materials for medical devices and regenerative medicine. Poorly chosen materials have caused numerous healthcare problems for patients, but silk is widely considered a fantastic choice due to its compatibility and excellent properties. Our unique technology is unparalleled in the world and is a sustainable, low cost, low energy manufacturing route. Our platform can create bespoke, next generation fibres and materials, for a multitude of healthcare problems, with potential for nerve regeneration, device coatings and artificial tendons, among others. |
| Year Established | 2018 |
| Impact | This company is looking to use it's independently developed IP to produce improved silk materials. In recgonition for his contribution to the wider field of silk processing Dr. Holland was asked to help with consultation and founding of this company. |
| Website | https://www.spintex.co.uk/ |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Outreach: 181024 Girls in Science / Bioladies Event: The Pitcher and Piano, York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk given by Chris Holland about the work done in the SPICE project which was pitched to encourage female uptake of STEM subjects at school, university and in their careers. The feedback was very positive and the talk was promoted widely on social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://girlsinscience.co.uk/gis-event-york-2018/ |
| Description | Advanced Course: 200623 "Biopolymers based on renewable resources" CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology) University of Minho in Portugal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A course on silk provided by Dr Holland entitled The strength of silk is the least interesting thing about it |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Career Development: Fellowship Perspectives EPSRC Early Career Roadshow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk to the Engineering Faculty from the EPSRC programme managers to discuss the experiences of Chris Holland during the application, interview and start of his EPSRC early career fellowship. This was delivered to a range of early career researchers who were interested in finding out more about the position and potentially applying for it. The talk was entitled "Fellowships: Early Career Perspectives" Early Career Researchers Roadshow, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Wednesday 9th July 2014 Several researchers have contacted Chris Holland following this talk and have expressed interest in being mentees and aquiring feedback for their own proposals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Career Development: Fellowship Perspectives Red Lining Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk to the Engineering Faculty to discuss the experiences of Chris Holland during the application, interview and start of his EPSRC early career fellowship to a range of early career researchers who were interested in finding out more about the position and potentially applying for it. The talk was entitled "Fellowships: Early Career Perspectives" Red Lining Week: Fellowships day, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Thursday 4th July 2013 Several researchers have contacted Chris Holland following this talk and have expressed interest in being mentees and aquiring feedback for their own proposals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Conference 170913 Talk at Physical Aspects of Polymer Science: Swansea University, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Richard Hodgkinson presented a talk on "The effect of extensional flow on shear viscosity" at the 2017 Physical Aspects of Polymer Science meeting in Swansea University 13-15th September 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://paps17.iopconfs.org/programme2 |
| Description | Conference 180327 Talk at Deformation Fracture and Yield in Polymers; Rolduc Abbey, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at this triannual conference, the reception was good and we have developed two additional collaborations as well as an employment offer for one of the SPICE team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.dyfp-conferences.org/ |
| Description | Conference 180704 Talk at European Solid Mechanics Conference 2018 Silk Symposia: From Molecules to Orb Webs, Bologna, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited talk at the ESMC for a silk symposia where the main outputs of the SPICE programme were discussed amongs peers from across Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.esmc2018.org/drupal8/node/60 |
| Description | Conference: 150324 Arrested gels: dynamics, structure & applications. Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PDRA Pete Laity provided a talk "Native fibroin solutions: silk feedstocks as temporally arrested" at Gonville & Caius College, Univ. of Cambridge. which resulted in some useful contacts made with various equipment and materials manufacturers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference: 150330 Thermal Analysis 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk : 1. "Silk: Linking eggs to polymer melts" Thermal Analysis Conference, TAC 2015, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, Monday 30th March 2015 Audience was a range of academics and industry who use thermal methods for their research and resulted in indirect equipment sponsorship of the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.rsc.org/events/download/Document/92e78e99-6c59-4c0b-8f1c-a8703673a7ef |
| Description | Conference: 150909 Physical Aspects of Polymer Science 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PDRA Pete Laity presented our work in the form of an oral presentation "Investigating the protein gelation mechanism underlying natural silk fibre spinning" Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Univ. of Manchester. This resulted in discussion following the presentation which generally supported our working hypothesis concerning entropically-driven de-watering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference: 150910 TERMIS 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk in the biopolymers/silk session of the TERMIS conference: "Turning a silk purse into a sows ear: the importance of processing when using silk in regenerative medicine" TERMIS 2015 4th World Congress, Boston, MA, USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference: 160909 9th International Silk Conference in China, Liuzhou, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide his first plenary talk at this highly respected biennial conference which focusses on developments across the silk industry. His talk was entitled "Spinning a Good Yarn: The Importance of Processing for Silk Fibre Performance" 9th International Silk Conference in China, Liuzhou, China, 9th September 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference: 161215 5th International Symposium on Biomedical Materials, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a keynote talk regarding his group's research entitled "Turning a silk purse into a sows ear: the importance of processing when using silk in regenerative medicine" 5th International Symposium on Biomedical Materials, Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday 15th December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://lahore.comsats.edu.pk/ISBM/ |
| Description | Conference: 170704 European Polymer Federation Congress, Lyon, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to be a keynote speaker at the European Polymer Federation Congress, Lyon, France, on Tuesday 4th July. The presentation, entitled "Inspired by Nature: What Silk Can Tell Us About Aqueous Polymer Processing" and given to an audience of approximately 80, led to requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://epf-2017-lyon.sciencesconf.org/ |
| Description | Conference: 170724 Sheffield Silk Conference, Halifax Hall, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland presented a talk regarding his group's research "Insights into the flow processing of silks" at the Sheffield Silk Conference, Halifax Hall, Sheffield on Tuesday 25th July 2017. 56 people were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://naturalmaterials.group.shef.ac.uk/SSC2017/programme.php |
| Description | Conference: 170725 Sheffield Silk Conference, Halifax Hall, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Peter Laity presented a talk regarding the group's work entitled "Changes in silk feedstock during cocoon construction" at the Sheffield Silk Conference, Halifax Hall, Tuesday 25th July 2017. 56 people were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://naturalmaterials.group.shef.ac.uk/SSC2017/programme.php |
| Description | Conference: 170919 Improving Biomaterials through Better Understanding of their Assembly Mechanisms, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a presentation on the group's work at the "Improving Biomaterials through Better Understanding of their Assembly Mechanisms" conference at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Tuesday 19th September 2017, with an international audience of approximately 50 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/IBB2017/ |
| Description | Conference: 171009 8th International Conference on Advanced Fibres and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a talk regarding the work of the group, entitled "Insights into the Flow Processing of Silks: How processing effects silk's self assembly" on Monday 9th October 2017. The talk, given to approximately 300 people at the 8th International Conference on Advanced Fibres and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, China, sparked requests for further information and an invitation to be on the international board of 100 for Advanced Fibre Processing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://mtg.polymer.cn/UploadFile/file/20170922231435_8953.pdf |
| Description | Conference: 171031 Recent Appointees in Manufacturing Research Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland was an organiser of the Recent Appointees in Manufacturing Research Conference at the University of Manchester, and also presented his group's work on Tuesday 31st October 2017, under the title "The Secrets of Silk: Offering new routes for low energy processing of polymers". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ceas.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/themes-challenges/themes/pdi/areas/process-tomography/... |
| Description | Conference: 190614 Frontiers In Silk Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk at an International silk cofnerence which is the spiritual successor to the one we arranged as part of SPICE in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://event.unitn.it/silk2019/ |
| Description | Conference: 190905 EUROMAT, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk from Chris Holland on outputs from SPICE project to students and academics at this conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference: 201209 Talk Silk Biomaterials from Sources, Production, Clinical Translation, to Commercialization Workshop World Biomaterials Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Holland gave an invited talk The importance of fundamental research in silk and how it drives innovation and applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference: 201215 Evolving Materials and Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development 2020, Department of Physics, Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Holland gave an invited talk Sustainable Polymer Processing Inspired By Silk and chaired the following session at this virtual conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference: Business and Innovation Network @Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland attended the BIN@Brasil conference at Ribeirão Preto which sook to engage with stakeholders in the strengthening of relationships between researchers and businesses in both Brasil, Sheffield and Porto. He was part of a team of 7 from Sheffield consisting of academics, business development managers and industrialists that represented the broad spectrum of interests from Sheffield University in this area. He gave a talk entitled "Understanding Protein Processing and Performance" BIN@Brazil, Ribeirão Preto - Brazil, Centro de Convenções Ribeirão Preto, Sala Ametista, Brazil, Wednesday 13th November 2013 Links were established between Chris Holland and the UK FCO and SIN representatives for the region which have been invaluable in highlighting future funding routes to establish new collaborations between the UK and Brasil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/pages/BIN-Brazil-2013/167177423442567 |
| Description | Conference: Materials Research Exchange IOM3 Coventry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland took part in manning Sheffield Universities Stand to promote natural materials science at the UK Advanced Materials Research Showcase in Coventry and gave a 1 minute "elevator pitch" to the audience concerning the work of his group. Increased interactions with IOM3 and the Natural Materials Association |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.iom3.org/events/2014-materials-research-exchange |
| Description | General Public: 190426 Designing with Natural Materials Events, Brighton, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was an event where Dr Holland gave a general publica lecture about the SPICE project and biomimetics. This has continued and is a series of talks that is occuring over the coming years at locations across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: (Oxford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest undergraduate lecture for the BA Biological Science Course, Zoology Department, Oxford University 30th January 2013 titled: Silk: Spiders, Silkworms and Stress, 3rd year Biomechanics Option Students have approached me afterwards for PhD enquiries and work experience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: 170516 University of Manchester, Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland gave a presentation entitled "The Secrets of Silk: Offering new routes for low energy processing of polymers" at the organised workshop "Scientific and Technological Challenges in Defining a New Paradigm for Sustainable Biomaterials", University of Manchester, Manchester. The talk was to approximately 100 people and took place on Tuesday 16th May 2017, and led to requests for further information and requests for funding applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: 171122 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk regarding his group's research entitled "Putting a new spin on silk; how processing effects performance in silk biomaterials" ACS on Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday 22nd November 2017. He was also invited to sit on a panel at the same event, with session title "How to Get Published: Top Ten Tips for a Successful Submission". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: 171123 Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland was invited to present the group's work to approximately 35 people, under the title "Putting a New Spin on Silk; How Processing Effects Performance in Silk Biomaterials". Part of ACS on Campus on Thursday 23rd November at Tel Aviv University, Israel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: Nanotechnology Programme Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk at a summer school run by Oxford Universities department of further education as part of their Nanotechnology Programme entitled: "Spider silk and novel bio-inspired synthetic polymers" at Ewert House, Summertown, Oxford, UK on Thursday 3rd July 2014 Several students showed enthusiasm and interest after the presentation and have requested more information about the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Guest Lecture: North East Polymer Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | An invited lecture to the North East Polymer Association (NEPA) which was held at the Chemistry Department Durham University on 25th November 2014. The lecture was to a mixed scientific audience of undergrads to academics and industrialists. After my talk several students and some academics have been in contact requesting more information regarding our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/nepa/events/ |
| Description | Industrial Engagement: 190408 Bolt Threads Inc, Emeryville, San Franscisco, California, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at one of the world's premiere artificial silk production companies, Bolt Threads Inc. Outcome was further engagement and sending a student over for an industrial placement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Industrial Engagement: 190627 Plastic Free World, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk by Chris Holland in the Textiles track (which he also was session chair) at the plastic free world conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://plasticfree-world.com/the-speakers/ |
| Description | Industrial Engagement: 191029 TA Instruments, Imperial War Museum, Manchester, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk from Chris Holland about the characterisation techniques employed as part of SPICE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Industrial Seminar: 150324 Dept. Materials Science and Engineering Industry Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was an event held in the department to showcase the type of research conducted here. Academics from each research theme were asked to present an overview of their research area to a range of industrialists (50+) from SMEs to Multinationals. There were over 100 people in the audience. Afterwards audience could select to be shown around our lab, we had 6 industry representatives on a tour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Industrial Seminar: 150406 Bolt Threads San Francisco, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at synthetic spider silk spinning company Bolt Threads in the USA. This was to talk about my groups' work on the flow properties of silk. "Spider silk and spinning a good yarn: Why protein denaturation isn't always a bad thing" Boltthreads Inc. Emeryville, CA, USA, Monday 6th April 2015. This was recognition of my position as a world expert in flow processing of silk materials and resulted in me spending half a day at Bolt discussing our research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Industrial Seminar: Smith and Nephew York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Organiser informed that they received lots of positive feedback for the talk. TBC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Industrial Workshop: Agilent Technologies, Germany, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a seminar on Refining Silk: How silk research has pushed the limits of testing hardware and sample preparation. Nano Tensile Testing Workshop, Agilent Technologies, Frankfurt, Germany, 22nd May 2013 New industrial contacts and strengthened working relationship with instrumentation manufacturer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Industry Seminar: 161004 TA Instruments User Meeting, Leicester Space Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of his continuing engagement with instrumentation manufacturers Chris Holland was kindly invited to provide a talk about his group's work on rheology and thermal characterisation at the TA Instruments annual users meeting. This is focussed on a wide range of users from academia to industry. His talk was entitled "Why Silk Rheology is Like Opening a Can of Worms" TA Instruments User Meeting, Leicester Space Museum, 4th October 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Internet: Group Website www.naturalmaterialsgroup.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have created and continually maintained our group website as specified in our PTI We have been contacted by several potential collaborators who have seen what type of work we do and would like to benefit from our expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| URL | http://www.naturalmaterialsgroup.com |
| Description | Internet: Twitter Account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Established twitter feed for Dr Holland (@DrChrisHolland) where we inform our followers (179 to date) of group updates and points of general professional scientific interest Some of our tweets have been retweeted by individuals to several thousand of their followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014,2015 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/drchrisholland |
| Description | Invited Lecture: 191004 Warwick University, Warwick, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk from Chris Holland on outputs from SPICE project to students and academics at this univeristy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Media: 170314 Comment in The Times Newspaper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was asked to provide his comments on a recent development of a textile quality bioengineered silk fibre produced by the company Bolt Threads Inc. The comment was approximately 100 words, about 4 column inches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/its-got-legs-fake-spider-silk-heralds-a-new-era-for-clothing-... |
| Description | Media: 170719 Press Release from the University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The University of Cambridge issued a press release announcing the publication "Silk micrococoons for protein stabilisation and molecular encapsulation" in Nature Communications. Dr Chris Holland gave a short comment of two sentences. https://www.altmetric.com/details/22197130/news |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/silk-micrococoons-could-be-used-in-biotechnology-and-medicine |
| Description | Media: 170919 Press Release from the University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The University of Sheffield issued a press release announcing the publication of "Analysis of the pressure requirements for silk spinning reveals a pultrusion dominated process" in Nature Communications. Both lead author Jamie Sparkes and Dr Chris Holland were asked for short for short comments, a few sentences each. https://www.altmetric.com/details/26300571/news |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/silkworms-silk-greener-materials-1.731163 |
| Description | Media: Comment on silk research in The Times |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Comment on silk research for the Times newspaper 17th Jan 2014 Raised profile of Chris Holland as a recognised expert in this field |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/wildlife/article3977651.ece |
| Description | Media: Doc/Fest Pitching |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland took part in the preliminary scouting for DocFest in February, pitching an idea for a series of programmes based on natural materials. This then lead to a follow up session in the main DocFest in June where I was pitched as talent to producers for the mainstream broadcast channels. Follow-ups with several TV Channels and Production companies but projects cannot be named at this time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://sheffdocfest.com/whats_on |
| Description | Media: Feature in EPSRC Pioneer Magasine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland was featured in Issue 11 (p44-46) of the EPRSC Pioneer Magasine Winter 2013 11, which is distributed to all college members and HEI. Further inquiries regarding the research from the natural materials group in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/pubs/pioneer-edition-11-issued-winter-2013/ |
| Description | Media: Feature in STFC Fascination Magasine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Issue 12 p 11 Spring 2013 Feature Article by Emily Mobley: Think twice before squishing that spider. No direct feedback was received |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.stfc.ac.uk/2421.aspx |
| Description | Media: Film: Educational video for Key Stage 2/3 students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was interviewed for a film directed and produced by Dr Emma Carter, sponsored by the Engineering Professors Council as part of their 20th Anniversary 'Engaging in Engineering' award: http://epc.ac.uk/engaging-in-engineering-awards/. The purpose of the interview was to stimulate and engage with Key Stage 2/3 students at schools in order to encourage them to chose STEM subjects and careers. The interview was a general discussion on the work we do in the lab and the reasoning behind why he chose to be a scientist/engineer. TBD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/144215523 |
| Description | Media: Interview for Reinforced Plastics Magasine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was interviewed for a piece on silk based composites by Cordelia Sealy writing for Reinforced Plastics, the magasine of the European Composites industry which is sent out to all their members. TBD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2014.12.023 |
| Description | Media: Press Release and International Attention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This surrounds the press releases written and co-ordinated through the authors of the Advanced Materials paper The Speed of Sound in Silk: Linking Material Performance to Biological Function http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201401027/abstract . This paper attracted considerable media attention, being covered by New York Times, Russia Today, MSN, BBC, Wired, National Geographic, Evening Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Various Blogs, Tweets, Google+ and Reddit. The easiest way to view the impact is through the Altmetrics score, placing it at time of submisison at 185 ranking it as #3 of 2493 papers published in this journal to date and in the 99th percentile of all research articles published across all subjects that year. Furthermore this research, undertaken primarily by D.Phil student Beth Mortimer (co-supervised by Chris Holland) contributed towards her acquisition of an independent research fellowship at Oxford in recognition of her success. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&citation_id=2409683 |
| Description | Media: Radio appearance BBC Radio Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This was a pre-recorded radio interview as a result of a press release for the Advanced Materials paper http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201401027/abstract . It was 3 minutes of general interview for Chris Holland and his interest in spiders and the findings of this paper. TX June 4th 2014 Drive time Howard Pressman No direct impact |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7n5/broadcasts/2014/10 |
| Description | Media: TV appearance BBC2 Nature's Weirdest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | 2 minute segment for Chris Holland talking about spider swarms in Pakistan on 2013 Nature's Weirdest, Series 2, Episode 3, BBC 2, TX date 3rd January 2013 None specifically |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012wj6b |
| Description | Media: TV appearance BBC4 Spider House |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Filming for a BBC4 Documentary Spider House TX date 29th October, at 9pm on BBC4. This 90 minute documentary was produced by Windfall Films, who also do the Christmas Lectures, and collects the spider experts from across the UK to talk about our fascination with all things arachnid. Chris Holland was featured at approximately 30 minutes into the programme. Well received by the general public with several positive comments on social media. Further inquiries about the work from fellow academics and outside the university have taken place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mqc4z |
| Description | Meeting: IOP Polymer Physics Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk entitled "Using silk as a model for efficient, sustainable biopolymer processing" at the IOP Polymer Physics Group Meeting, The Ridge, Ranmoor, Sheffield, UK, Tuesday 10th September 2013 Increased visibility within the UK polymer community for the newly established natural materials group and PI Chris Holland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/pol/index.html |
| Description | Meeting: IOP Polymer Physics Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a talk entitled: "Silk self-assembly: When nature takes protein stability a step too far" at the Physics of Biopolymer Self Assembly Meeting organised by the Polymer Physics Group branch of The Institute of Physics, 28 Portland Place London, UK, Thursday 11th September 2014 Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk at a symposium at the Spring MRS meeting in 2015. He also made contact with 2 potential new collaborators at this meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=281492&eventID=602&eventID=602 |
| Description | Meeting: Nano KTN Nanofibres to Nanocomposites III |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland presented his work and that of his industrial collaborators as part of "Spinning Out Spin Outs: Oxford Biomaterials Approach To Tech Transfer" Nanofibres to Nanocomposites III, MediCity, Nottingham, UK, Thursday 27th February 2014 General increased interest in silk from members of the audience also making several links to companies interested in novel materials for processing and general technical characterisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/news/153053-15/Nanofibres_to_Nanocomposites_III_Conference_in_partnership_... |
| Description | Meeting: Recent Appointees In Polymer Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland provided a talk entitled: "Adventures on the web" at the RAPS 2014 meeting in Reading University on Thursday 4th September 2014 where he discussed his experiences over the past year in setting up a lab from scratch, hiring people and general scientific management. Many of the RAPS cohort appreciated the presentation and asked for more information afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.raps.org.uk |
| Description | Meeting: Sheffield Centre for Additive Manufacturing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research Talk at the 2nd ADAM meeting, University of Sheffield, UK, 15th March 2013 entitled Can an Old Spider Teach Us New Tricks? Increased visibility by Chris Holland in the department leading to new research collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Organisation of an International Conference: 2017 Sheffield Silk Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thanks to the generosity and support of the IoP Liquids and Complex Fluids group and EPSRC, over the summer the UK had its first silk specific conference held in Sheffield. The three-day conference held at Halifax Hall from the 24th-26th July brought together over 50 experts in the field of silk science and industry from around the world. This excellent turnout attested to the growing community of silk research across the UK (in particular early career researchers) and the overall enthusiasm and interest in such a meeting from those from near and afar. The intent was to generate scholarly discussion around the key challenges in the field and foster collaboration with the aim to give everyone an equal platform to showcase their science. Given silk is flow processed from a gel into one of the world's highest performing fibres, the topics discussed naturally centered around silk as a complex fluid, including protein structure and intermolecular interactions; characterisations in the liquid and solid states; processing methods and applications. A full programme, abstracts booklet and details of the conference may be found at www.sheffieldsilkconference.co.uk. The three-day conference began at the bottom, scale speaking, with 5 presentations from Chinese and Japanese researchers discussing the use of genetic engineering as a technique to manipulate silk protein structure in order to elucidate not only it's formation process, but to tailor it for specific applications such as biomaterials. Following this we had a thoughtful, and thought provoking, talk from Frantisek Sehnal of the Czech Republic discussing Seroins, a lesser known class of silk proteins found in silkworms that appear to play several roles in processing these materials. The afternoon focussed on the fibre, with talks from Spain, China, UK, Italy, Japan and Germany discussing a wide variety of topics; from Jose Perez-Riguerio's call for a standardisation of mechanical testing for silks across the field, through to Beth Mortimer's presentation on the sonic properties of spider silks. The afternoon culminated with a presentation from Thomas Scheibel on the advancements his team has made on understanding the self-assembly mechanisms of silk through their recombinant expression system, highlighting the importance of the proteins C and N termini for intermolecular interactions and hierarchical structure development. The day concluded with a poster and drinks reception, after an exciting day with top quality science it was fantastic to see the community's enthusiasm spill over into networking and collaboration building. The following days' morning session was focussed on better understanding silk in solution. Talks surrounding silk protein folding through NMR and IR were joined by those on rheology; discussing how structure develops during flow such as Pete Laity's insights into how the silkworm can use metal ions can achieve huge changes in bulk rheology. Finally we had Keiji Numata's fascinating observations of a granule mediated silk self-assembly process, which prompted the question if silk nanofibrils really exist in the fibre? The afternoon was focussed on the fantastic potential and multitude of applications for silk based materials. These were mostly biomedical, but with a focus on the science behind the processing. In this session we listened to talks on 3D and reactive inkjet printing, spinning silk using light, creation of biomaterial scaffolds and finished with a talk from Anna Rising on her system for spinning artificial silk fibres from recombinant proteins. The day concluded with the conference meal at the Pointing Dog in Sheffield. A perfect way to finish a scientifically interesting and important day with conversations between researchers carrying on long into the evening. Fired up from the previous evenings' festivities, the final days' talks were all based on obtaining a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind silk self-assembly. Continuing the theme of the conference with a interdisciplinary mix of researchers with biological, physical chemical and engineering backgrounds, discussion surrounded how changes in the solvent environment of a silk proteins can be used to induce a structural change in the silk and thus initiate protein denaturation and aggregation. A highlight was Cedric Dicko's provocative and insightful overview of the field and posed questions that really made the audience consider how best to test these materials in a biologically relevant and consistent matter. Feedback from conference attendees was great, even extending to those not able to attend reporting they had heard how much those who did enjoyed it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://naturalmaterials.group.shef.ac.uk/SSC2017/index.php |
| Description | Outreach: 160329 Exploring STEM for girls, Sheffield University, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was asked to run a stand promoting materials science and his work on silk for this event. The event is for approximately 400 Y9 - 11 girls (200 AM and 200 PM) to explore their options in STEM subjects, related careers and pathways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Outreach: 160624 University Options in Engineering , Science and Maths, Sheffield University, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was selected to give a 20 minute "mini-lecture" about his research into silk to an audience 200 Year 12 students to encourage and promote options in STEM subjects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Outreach: 160704-10 Royal Society Summer Exhibition, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland and 8 members of his research group (undergraduates and postgraduates) attended and ran a stand at the 2016 Royal Society Summer Exhibition. The stand was called "spider racing" and discussed the non-Newtonian properties of silk in a fun and engaging way. The event lasted over 1 week and was attended by over 10,000 members of the public with a wide demographic but mainly children and families. We received excellent feedback from all, the audience enjoyed what admittedly was not the most slick or professional stand there, but it was the engagement with the active researchers who were passionate about their work which really captured the general publics attention. The contributors really enjoyed this week, which was hard work, but all found it most enjoyable and the earlier career members of the team expressed increased enthusiasm for STEM subjects and changed their opinions about their future directions, including one that decided they wanted to do a PhD by the end of it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/exhibits/spider-webs-... |
| Description | Outreach: 160726 / 170712 Headstart, Sheffield University, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland and 2 members of his team were asked to run an interactive session for 40 high achieving Y11 school children as part of the universities Headstart programme. Chris gave a 20 minute mini-lecture on his work and then we ran 2x30 minute "spider racing" sessions by which the non-Newtonian properties of silk and material selection were explained through the medium of playing with different stiffnesses of silly putties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Outreach: 161029 Imaginarium, Diamond Building, Sheffield University, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was asked to run a stand promoting materials science and his work on silk for this event. The event is for approximately 400 Y9 - 11 girls (200 AM and 200 PM) to explore their options in STEM subjects, related careers and pathways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Outreach: 170125 Anns Grove Primary School, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland took part in an afternoon session in which he ran a demonstration explaining where silk comes from and what makes it to 80 Y1 and Y2 primary school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Outreach: 180320 Exploring STEM for girls, Sheffield University, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was asked to run a stand promoting materials science and his work on silk for this event. The event is for approximately 400 Y9 - 11 girls (200 AM and 200 PM) to explore their options in STEM subjects, related careers and pathways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | Outreach: 180606 Bioladies Event: Bio Perspectives, Grays Court Hotel, York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A talk for the BioLadies association about the work performed in the Natural Materials Group and funded by SPICE. This went down very well with the audience with lots of positive feedback and requests for more information. It has also led to a series of follow-on talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.perfectsymbiosis.co.uk/events/ |
| Description | Outreach: 180613 WEMMA Lecture, Berry Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk by Chris Holland for the local West of England Minerals and Mining Association about the work performed in the group and it's relationship to SPICE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Outreach: 190312 Lydgate Infants School, Sheffield UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engagement activity with local school talking about spiders and silk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Outreach: 190626 University Options in STEM, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Y12 students about spiders and silk regarding applying for Materials Science and Engineering Courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Outreach: 21106 Reading School Remote Inspire Series Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland gave a talk at Reading School as part of their virtual inspire series and untangles just how researchers are discovering the secret properties of spider's silk to develop new materials. Dr Chris Holland is currently a Senior Lecturer in Natural Materials at the University of Sheffield. He attended Reading School from 1993-2000. During his time at school, Chris was inspired by long-standing Head of the Biology, John Oakes (Teacher 1970-1997) and credits him for his keen interest in the Sciences. Chris then attended the University of Oxford, where he earned a BA in Biological Sciences, a MSc in Integrative Biosciences as and eventually, a D. Phil. He later earned a Fellowship whilst working in the Oxford Silk Group. During this fascinating talk, Chris discusses what material science is and why it is important, its role in technology today and the global implications of the advancement of materials. Whilst originally trained in classical biology, he explores how spiders and silk worms make silk as a means to produce other high-performance products. Ms J Pickering (Teacher of Biology) said: "Dr Holland's fascinating talk generated a barrage of questions that illustrated his audience's involvement in the session. His enthusiasm for his job and research group was obvious and infectious. Hopefully his account of his career, how Biology lead him to Material Science, will help students recognise the interconnectivity of all of the sciences and open their eyes to a career in scientific research. It was an hour well spent at a time when we are all exceptionally busy - I thoroughly enjoyed the talk, as did the students who were watching with me." Thank you to Dr Chris Holland for presenting such an interactive and engaging Inspire Lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.reading-school.co.uk/news/?pid=3&nid=1&storyid=1496 |
| Description | Poster Presentation: 161213 BSR Midwinter conference, Reading |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Laity was selected to present his work on silk rheology entitled "The flow-induced phase change during the natural spinning of silk fibres" Poster presented at the BSR Midwinter conference, Reading , Tuesday 13th December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 151012 Science and Technology Group, Sheffield Branch of the University of the Third Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland gave an invited talk to the Sheffield chapter of the university of the third age. This is a group of technically interested (mainly retired) members of the public. It was highly enjoyable and we had lots of positive feedback on our talk: "A look at the history and definition of silk and tomorrow's high tech applications". It has resulted in requests for more information and invitation to another local scientific interest group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 160421 The Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society, University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pete Laity was invited to give a talk entitled "Silk - the physics behind the function" to the Cambridge and Anglian Materials Society, University of Cambridge, Thursday 21st April 2016. It was very well received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 160606 Stumperlowe Probus Meeting, Church Hall, Christ Church, Fulwood, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to engage with the local chapter of Probus, a group of mainly retired professionals wishing to engage with scientific and technological developments. He gave a talk entitled "Silk in tomorrow's high tech applications" Stumperlowe Probus Meeting, Church Hall, Christ Church, Fulwood, Sheffield, Monday 6th June 2016. Feedback for this talk was excellent and has led to other invites for talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 161130 Rotary Club Meeting, Heckmondwike |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to engage with a chapter of the Rotary Club, a group of mainly retired professionals wishing to engage with scientific and technological developments. He gave a talk entitled "The science of silks" Rotary Club Meeting, Heckondwike, Wednesday 30th November 2016. Feedback for this talk was excellent and has led to other invites for talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 170217 Sheffield University of the Third Age Meeting, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a general talk to the SU3A at the local Showroom Cinema after his previous talk last year to their technology special interests group. This was a highly enjoyable experience and he received great feedback from the audience. His talk was entitled "The science of silks" SU3A Meeting, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, Friday 17th February 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 170307 RSC Local Section Meeting, Lancaster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk concerning his research to a group of RSC members at their local section meeting. His talk was entitled "Spinning a Good Yarn: Why Silk is Much More Than Just a Fibre" RSC Local Section Meeting, Lancaster, Tuesday 7th March 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Lecture: 24H Inspire Lecture at Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a public lecture entitled: The science behind spider silk" 24 Hour Inspire Lectures, Firth Hall Sheffield, Friday 27th March 2014 in in celebration of Dr Tim Richardson. To pay tribute to and celebrate the life of Dr Tim Richardson, Inspiration for Life, the charity he set up when diagnosed with terminal cancer in June 2012, presented 24 hours of lectures and music, starting at 5.00 pm on 28 February, and going through to 5.00 pm on 1 March, all taking place in the Hicks Building. The lectures were on a wide range of subjects - you'll hear from astrophysicists, historians, lawyers, chemists, engineers and more, talking about music, magic, extraterrestrial lifeforms, philosophy, human rights, infinity, and beyond... Inspiration for Life aims to promote lifelong learning and the public understanding of science, and raises funds for cancer charities. Proceeds from this event will go to Rotherham Hospice and Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. Details of the programme can be found on the charity's website, www.inspirationforlife.co.uk. No specific impacts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/physics/news/24hour-inspire |
| Description | Public Lecture: Ignite Talk at Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event was attended by 60+ people, was filmed and posted on social media. Several students got in contact to enquire about working in the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSyOKoy6nJo |
| Description | Public Lecture: Off The Shelf Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk for Ideas Alive at 5.45 on Tuesday 28 October 2014 in Showroom Café, Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX. The talk, entitled The Science of Silks took a look at the definition of silk and the potential of new applications including regenerative medicine The event was part of the Ideas Alive at 5.45 strand in association with the University of Sheffield Public Engagement with Research Team who are a Gold Sponsor of the festival this year. We are delighted to have the support of the University of Sheffield enabling us to bring new research by academics to a public audience as part of our festival of the Mind. There has already been a request to provide the talk in 2015 for the Sheffield Chapter of the University of the Third Age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/students/news/off-the-shelf-2014-1.409642 |
| Description | Schools Outreach: 151118 Bethany School (Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Our department sent several academics and students to a local school for an afternoon exposing Reception-Yr6 schoolchildren to materials science. We ran a session on silks involving Chris Holland and PhD students Anastasia Brif and Jamie Sparkes. Parents and children highly enjoyed the afternoon and there were lots of questions after each session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Seminar: 150413 AFOSR Visit Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited to Oxford University to provide update on my research group's work during a visit of the American Air Force Office of Scientific Research. "Natural Materials Group Update" AFOSR Visit, Dept. Zoology, Oxford, OX1 3PS, Wednesday 13th April 2015. This provided an update and exposure of our work to another funding organisation and resulted in a day's discussion around the science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Seminar: 160323 School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Herriot-Watt University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was "Spinning a good yarn: The importance of processing for silk protein performance" School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Herriot-Watt University, Wednesday 23rd March 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Seminar: 161019 School of Engineering University of Liverpool, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to present his recent research entitled "Variety is the SPICE of life: insights into Silk Processing In Controlled Environments" School of Engineering Departmental Seminar, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Wednesday 19th October 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Seminar: 161205 EPSRC Physical Sciences Early Career Fellowship Forum, Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was kindly invited to provide a talk about his fellowship experience and help in developing the Early Career Forum for the Engineering section of the EPSRC fellows to the recently established Physical Sciences ECF network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Seminar: 161207 Chemistry Department, University of Durham, Durham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to present his recent research entitled "When is a silk not a silk? How rheology has opened a can of worms for silk/melt processing" Chemistry Departmental Seminar, University of Durham, Durham, Wednesday 7th, December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Seminar: 170308 Chemistry Department, University of Lancaster, Lancaster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a departmental seminar to the Chemistry department which was entitled "Spinning a Good Yarn: The Importance of Processing for Silk Protein Performance" Chemistry Departmental Seminar, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, Wednesday 8th March 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Seminar: 170510 Materials Department, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Holland was invited to speak of the group's work at the materials department seminar at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 10th May 2017. The talk to an audience of approximately 100, entitled "Inspired by nature: Unravelling Silks Secrets", sparked discussion from the audience and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Seminar: 170615 Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald) Departmental Seminar, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to present a talk titled "The Secrets of Silk: Offering new routes for low energy processing of polymers" at the departmental seminar of the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald), Germany. Thusday 15th June 2017, to an audience of approximately 20. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Seminar: Chemistry Department University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the Chemistry department during collaborative visit entitled Putting a New Spin on Silk, Departmental Seminar, Chemistry Department, Cambridge University, UK, 1st March 2013 Increased visibility for the natural materials group and PI Chris Holland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Seminar: Industrial Liaison Board Meeting Sheffield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation to the Materials Science and Engineering Departments Industrial Liaison board discussing the commercial potential of silk based biopolymers and entitled Silk: What can 400 million years of natural R&D do for us?" Industrial Liaison Board Meeting, Tuesday 20th May 2014 Increased awareness of the IAB of the breadth of research that occurs within the department, specifically the introduction of natural materials characterisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Seminar: Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled: Putting a New Spin on Silk, given as a Departmental Seminar, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Sheffield University, UK, 17th April 2013 Increased visibility of the newly formed Natural Materials Group and PI Chris Holland to the department and its students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Seminar: Maxwell Lecture Physics Department, Kings College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland provided an invited lecture (the Maxwell Lecture) entitled: "Silk: Understanding the secret of a spider's success" Maxwell Lecture, Physics Department, Kings College London, UK, Monday 13th January 2014 Interest from both undergraduates and graduates in the area of silk and afterwards lab tours and introductions to several members of staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Seminar: Physics Department, University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland provided a talk "Silk: Understanding the secret of a spider's success" Physics Department, University of Sheffield, UK, Wednesday 4th December 2013 Increased visibility and establishment of links between the natural materials group and the physics department at Sheffield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Seminar: SYLICA Lecture, CEITEC Brno, Czech Republic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide the SYLICA Lecture entitled Biopolymer Combinatorial Rheology: Linking structure to function with silk" at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno, Czech Republic on Tuesday 12th March 2014 This was the initial meeting to setup and try and establish links between the natural materials group and CEITEC. It has resulted in an invited Plenary Lecture at their Annual conference and discussions as to further ERASMUS student exchanges and H2020 applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Webinar: 200513 BioLad(d)ies Network meeting Biomimicry Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk by Dr Holland to the Bioladies network about biomimicry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop 180525 Talk at the HYBER Symposium, Dipoli Congress Center, Espoo, Finland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk for Chris Holland to the HYBER symposium to discuss his work on silk processing. A productive conference which has lead to increased interactions with two silk bioengineering groups and requests for sample characterisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.aalto.fi/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/2018-10/2018_hyber_symposium_program.pdf |
| Description | Workshop: 150918 Advances in understanding materials using extensional flow, Grey College, Durham University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | PDRA Pete Laity presented Rheology of native silk feedstocks (poster) at this workshop and it resulted in Some discussion of our results - generally supporting our working hypothesis concerning entropically-driven de-watering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Workshop: 160420 Designing for Sustainability, Natural Materials Association, London Metropolitan University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a talk at the IOM3 Natural Materials Association meeting entitled "The Secrets of Silk's Success" Designing for Sustainability, Natural Materials Association, London Metropolitan University, Wednesday 20th April 2016. It was to a very broad audience and the feedback for the talk via a post event survey was very good, rating it as one of the highlights of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.iom3.org/sites/default/files/NMA%20ANNUAL%20REPORT%202015%20(3).pdf |
| Description | Workshop: 160513 ACS Campus On Tour, Politechnica University, Bucuresti, Romainia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk about his group's research entitled "Silk as a biomimetic ideal for polymers" Politechnica University, Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucuresti, 060042, Romania, Friday 13th May 2016. This was part of his involvement with the ACS Campus on Tour series in which he also provides editorial advice to early career researchers and academics under the umbrella of his ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering Associate Editorial position. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://acsoncampus.acs.org/events/politechnica-university-05-13-2016/ |
| Description | Workshop: 161123 ACS Campus On Tour, German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to provide a talk about his groups research entitled "Silk: Properties Processing and Potential" ACS On Campus: German National Library of Science and Technology, Wednesday 23rd November 2016. This was part of his involvement with the ACS Campus on Tour series in which he also provides editorial advice to early career researchers and academics under the umbrella of his ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering Associate Editorial position. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://acsoncampus.acs.org/events/german-national-library-of-science-and-technology-tib-hannover-11-... |
| Description | Workshop: 190920 Beihang Univeristy, Beijing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk from Chris Holland on outputs from SPICE project to students and academics at this univeristy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: 191007 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk from Chris Holland on outputs from SPICE project to students and academics at this univeristy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: MeDe Innovation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Chris Holland was invited to give a talk entitled: "High Tech Silks for Medical Applications; the CoMMPLETe approach" Biological & Biomimetic Materials for Medical Devices & Health Technologies as part of the MeDe Innovation workshop held at Sheffield, UK, Thursday 18th September 2014 Increased exposure to the medical devices development community (both research and industry). Introduction to funding managers and an invitation to provide a talk at a medical devices manufacturer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://mede-innovation.ac.uk/ |