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  1. Color production mechanisms in spiders

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, September 2019, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  2. Bioinspirational understanding of flexural performance in hedgehog spines

    Article • Acta Biomaterialia, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  3. Rainbow peacock spiders enhance the resolving power of a diffraction grating by 200%

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2017, Nature

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  4. Static flexural properties of hedgehog spines conditioned in coupled temperature and relative humidity environments

    Article • Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  5. Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  6. Blue tarantulas and dancing rainbow spiders inspire new color technologies (Conference Presentation)

    Article • May 2017, SPIE

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  7. Structural Colors: Tarantula-Inspired Noniridescent Photonics with Long-Range Order (Advanced Optical Materials 2/2017)

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  8. Non-iridescent structural color inspired by tarantulas

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  9. Dynamic impact testing of hedgehog spines using a dual-arm crash pendulum

    Article • Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  10. Researchers discover tarantulas evolve the same color blue using different mechanisms

    Article • Science Advances, November 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  11. Despite the myth, spiders are not "the only group of animals that do not produce melanin".

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2015, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  12. Biomimicry: A Path to Sustainable Innovation

    Article • Design Issues, July 2015, The MIT Press

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  13. Structural color and its interaction with other color-producing elements: perspectives from spiders

    Article • September 2014, SPIE

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  14. Dual Induction of TREM2 and Tolerance-Related Transcript, Tmem176b, in Amyloid Transgenic Mice: Implications for Vaccine-Based Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease

    Article • ASN NEURO, June 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung, Cameron Thrash

  15. Role of the linker region in the expression of Rhizopus oryzae glucoamylase

    Article • BMC Biochemistry, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung

  16. The family 21 carbohydrate-binding module of glucoamylase fromRhizopus oryzaeconsists of two sites playing distinct roles in ligand binding

    Article • Biochemical Journal, June 2006, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Bor-Kai Hsiung