Holland, Chris - University of Sheffield - Department of Materials Science and Engineering

个人简介

Chris joined the department at the start of 2013 and is head of the Natural Materials Group, currently holding an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. He is also the Chair of RAPS, an organisation for Recent Appointees in Polymer Science. Previously he was at Oxford where he undertook his BA in Biological Sciences, MSc in Integrative Biosciences, D. Phil and later a Fellowship By Examination (a.k.a JRF) whilst working in the Oxford Silk Group.

研究领域

Chris’ research uses tools developed for the physical sciences to better understand Nature’s materials, from latex to collagen, but with a focus on silk. By investigating unspun silk’s flow properties he has been able to gain unique insights into their biodiversity, structure and evolution. Additionally, this work has made important links between natural and industrial fibre processing which has lead to a fundamentally new way of designing, testing and fabricating bio-inspired materials. Today he combines multiple instruments with rheology, from microscopes (confocal) and spectrometers (IR) to synchrotrons (SANS at ISIS and SAXS/WAXS at ESRF) in order to understand exactly how silk proteins arrange themselves into one of Nature’s most impressive materials.

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Walker, A. Holland, C. Sutherland, T. More than one way to spin a crystallite: Multiple trajectories through liquid crystallinity to solid silk, Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, 20150259 access Laity, P. Gilks, S. Holland, C. Rheological behavior of native silk feedstocks. Polymer 67 28-39 access Mortimer, B. Guan, J. Holland, C*. Porter, D. Vollrath, F. Linking naturally and unnaturally spun silks through the forced reeling of Bombyx mori. Acta Biomaterialia 11 247-255 access Vollrath, F. Hawkins, N. Holland, C. Porter, D. Boulet-Audet, M. Differential Scanning Fluorimetry provides high throughput data on silk protein transitions Scientific Reports 4 5625 access Holland, C.* Vollrath, F. Gill, H. Horses and cows might teach us about human knees. Naturwissenshaften, 101 (4) 351-354 access Mortimer, B. Gordon, Shira D. Holland, C. Siviour, C. Vollrath, F. Windmill.J. The Speed of Sound in Silk: Linking Material Performance to Biological Function. access Boulet-Audet, M., Terry, A., Vollrath, F. Holland, C. Silk protein aggregation kinetics revealed by Rheo IR. Acta Biomaterialia, 10 (2): 776-784 access Bauer, G. Friedrich, C. Gillig, C. Speck, T. Holland, C. Investigating the Rheological Properties of Native Plant Latex. Interface 11, 20130847 access Mortimer, B. Holland, C. Vollrath, F. forced reeling of Bombyx mori silk: separating behaviour and processing conditions. Biomacromolecules 14 (10): 3653-3659 access