个人简介
Professional Positions
2015–2018 Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor — The College of William & Mary
Department of Applied Science
2016– Courtesy Associate Professor of Physics — The College of William & Mary
Department of Physics
2014–2015 Guest Professor — Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Department of Materials Science (D-MATL). Host: Prof. André Studart
2014– Associate Professor — The College of William & Mary
Department of Applied Science, Nanomaterials & Imaging Lab
2008–2014 Assistant Professor — The College of William & Mary
Department of Applied Science, Nanomaterials & Imaging Lab
2004–2008 Associate Research Scholar — Princeton University
Chemical Engineering Department
Education
2004 Dr. sc. nat. — Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
1999 Dipl. Phys. — Universität Konstanz, Germany
Physics Department
研究领域
Silks are natural polymers with outstanding properties. Some spider silks are tougher than the toughest synthetic polymers and even outperform steel in terms of strength by weight. Also, because it is a biocompatible protein, silk is ideally suited for use in biomedical applications.
The outstanding properties of silk are due to its interesting structure, featuring a peculiar organization down to molecular scales. We apply our imaging techniques to silkworm silk protein to provide unprecedented insights into assembly at single-molecule resolutions. This knowledge will help develop new processes to make silks artificially: novel materials that are environmentally completely benign and feature excellent mechanical properties.
Our lab also studies the brown recluse spider, which spins a thin ribbon of silk instead of a cylindrical strand typical of other species. By applying our imaging and other characterization techniques to this ribbon morphology, we hope to reveal novel structural, adhesive, and mechanical insights that will help us manufacture artificial thin silk films with the impressive properties of a native brown recluse strand.
近期论文
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JOM (2019) — Wang, Schniepp* "Nanofibrils as Building Blocks of Silk Fibers: Critical Review of the Experimental Evidence"
ACS Macro Letters (2018) — Wang, Schniepp* "Strength of Recluse Spider’s Silk Originates from Nanofibrils"
Polymer (2018) — Hocker, Kim, Schniepp, Kranbuehl "Polymer Crystallinity and the Ductile to Brittle Transition"
Nanoscale (2018) — Dickinson, Kumar, Adamson, Schniepp* "High-throughput optical thickness and size characterization of 2D materials" thum_optical_graphene.jpg
Polymer (2017) — Hocker, Hudson-Smith, Smith, Komatsu, Dickinson, Schniepp, Kranbuehl "Graphene oxide reduces the hydrolytic degradation in polyamide-11" thum_go-pa11.jpg
Materials Horizons (2017) — Koebley, Vollrath, & Schniepp* "Toughness-enhancing metastructure in the recluse spider's looped ribbon silk"
Energy & Fuels (2016) — Dickinson, Suijkerbuijk, Berg, Marcelis & Schniepp* "Atomic Force Spectroscopy Using Colloidal Tips Functionalized with Dried Crude Oil: A Versatile Tool to Investigate Oil–Mineral Interactions" thum_energy-fuels.jpg
Surface Innovations (2016) — Dickinson, Kranbuehl & Schniepp* "Assessing Graphene Oxide/Polymer Interfacial Interactions via Peeling Test" thum_peeling.jpg
Polymer (2016) — Hocker, Hudson-Smith, Schniepp & Kranbuehl "Enhancing polyimide's water barrier properties through addition of functionalized graphene oxide"
Nanoscale (2016) — Neugirg, Koebley, Schniepp* & Fery "AFM-based mechanical characterization of single nanofibres"
Biomacromolecules (2015) — Koebley, Thorpe, Pang, Chrisochoides, Vollrath & Schniepp* "Silk Reconstitution Disrupts Fibroin Self-Assembly" thum_rsf-model.jpg
Small (2014) — Cui, Oyer, Glover, Schniepp & Adamson "Large Scale Thermal Exfoliation and Functionalization of Boron Nitride" thum_bn-exfol.jpg
Adv. Materials (2013) — Schniepp*, Koebley & Vollrath "Brown Recluse Spider's Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Stiff Extensible Silk"thum_silk-advmat.jpg2008–2012
Int. J. Oral Maxillofac. Implants (2012) — Rapuano, Hackshaw, Schniepp & MacDonald "Effects of Coating a Titanium Alloy with Fibronectin on the Expression of Osteoblast Gene Markers in the MC3T3 Osteoprogenitor Cell Line"thum_maxillo.jpg
J. Mater. Chem. (2012) — Cai, Thorpe, Adamson & Schniepp* "Methods of Graphite Exfoliation" thum_exforev.jpg
J. Phys. Chem. C (2012) — Glover, Adamson & Schniepp* "Charge-Driven Selective Adsorption of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate on Graphene Oxide Visualized by Atomic Force Microscopy" thum_sds-go.jpg
Nano LIFE (2012) — Li, Schniepp, Aksay & Car "Phonon-Induced Anisotropic Dispersion Forces On A Metallic Substrate" thum_nanolife.jpg
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012) — Oyer, Carrillo, Hire, Schniepp, Asandei, Dobrynin & Adamson "Stabilization of Graphene Sheets by a Structured Benzene/Hexafluorobenzene Mixed Solvent" thum_b-hfb.jpg
Biomacromolecules (2012) — Greving, Cai, Vollrath & Schniepp* "Shear-Induced Self-Assembly of Native Silk Proteins into Fibrils Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy" thum_silk-sa.jpg
Macromolecules (2011) — Glover, Cai, Overbeek, Kranbuehl & Schniepp* "In Situ Reduction of Graphene Oxide in Polymers"