2012 Chen, F., Porter, D. & Vollrath, F. - Silk Cocoon: Multilayer structure and mechanical properties (Bombyx mori). Acta Biomaterialia, 8 (7): 2620-2627 access
2012 Chen, F. J., Porter, D. & Vollrath, F. - Morphology and structure of silkworm cocoons. Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications, 32 (4): 772-778 access
2012 Chen, F., Porter, D. & Vollrath, F. - Structure and physical properties of silkworm cocoons. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 9 (74): 2299-2308 access
2011 Chen, F. & Hodgkinson, J. - "Impact damage" in Encyclopaedia of Composites, Wiley Publishing, in press
2010 Chen, F., Porter, D. & Vollrath, F. - A nonwoven composite model based on silkworm cocoon (Bombyx mori). Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, 4 (9): 28-33 Email for access
2010 Chen, F., Porter, D. & Vollrath. - Silkworm cocoons inspire models for random fiber and particulate composites. Physical Review E 82 (4): 0419111-0419116 access
2009 Vollrath, F., Chen, F. & Porter, D. - Silks and their composites. pp1355-1365 in Transactions of the 14th Fundamental Research Symposium on advances in pulp and paper research, Oxford 2009. ISBN 978 0 9545272 7 3 Email for access
2009 Chen, F. & Hodgkinson, J. - Impact behaviour of composites with different fibre structure, Journal of Aerospace Engineering 223 (7): 1009-1017 access
Presentations
2011
Silk Cocoons: From Nature to Synthetics, Biofuture, Ghent, Belgium, 2011
2010
Silkworm Cocoons: A biomimetic model for nonwoven and particulate composite structures, Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, USA, 2010
2009
The silkworm cocoon: a biological composite system 17th International conference on composite materials, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2009
Damage mechanism of silkworm cocoon 14th International conference on deformation, yield and fracture of polymers, Rolduc, Kerkrade, Holland, 2009
2008
Silkworm cocoon: a complex biological composite 24th Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, Salemo, Italy, 2008
Silkworm cocoon: A natural composite system SAMPE/IOM3 Annual Student Seminar, London, UK, 2008
Silkworm cocoon: A natural composite system Oxford Polymer Network annual meeting, Oxford, UK 2008
2010 Early Stage Researcher Grant, COST, EU
2009 Young Member’s Grant, SAMPE, UK
2006 Distinct Graduate, Shanghai, China
2005 Fashion Design Student Award, TUSN, China
2004 Rieter Scholarship, Shanghai, China
2003-06 People’s Scholarship, Shanghai, China
Conferences
Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, USA, 2010
Principles and development of bio-inspired materials, COST, Vienna, Austria, 2010
17th International conference on composite materials, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2009
14th International conference on deformation, yield and fracture of polymers, Rolduc, Kerkrade, Holland, 2009
24th Annual Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, Salemo, Italy, 2008
Prof. Fritz Vollrath and colleagues from the Fudan University in China are widely covered in the news for their discovery of a means to produce fake Rhino horns using horse hair. Hopes are that this product may undermine the illegal market for rhino horn, and demistify the properties of rhino horn. View Here