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Feeding Alginate-Coated Liquid Metal Nanodroplets to Silkworms for Highly Stretchable Silk Fibers
Nanomaterials, 2022 In this study, we fed the larval of Bombyx mori silkworms with nanodroplets of liquid metal (LM) coated with microgels of marine polysaccharides to obtain stretchable silk.
Zhong-Feng Gao +5 more
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Carbon Trends, 2023 Silk, a pyroprotein with its unique micro-structural features comprises of soft amorphous Image 1 regions containing compact Image 2-sheet crystals resulting in its potent characteristics.
Shubhanth Jain +4 more
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Silk fibroin electrogelation mechanisms [PDF]
Acta Biomaterialia, 2011 A silk fibroin gel system (e-gel), formed with weak electric fields, has potential utility in medical materials and devices. The mechanism of silk e-gel formation was studied to gain additional insight into the process and control of the material properties.
Qiang, Lu +7 more
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Silk fibroin supraparticles created by the evaporation of colloidal Ouzo droplets
AIP Advances, 2021 Due to its high biocompatibility and biodegradability, supraparticles made from silk fibroin—produced from Bombyx mori (B. mori) cocoons—can find various applications in biomedical fields.
Ashley Lamb +3 more
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Silk Fibroin Microfluidic Devices [PDF]
Advanced Materials, 2007 Precisely controlling spatio-temporal environmental parameters has become increasingly important in the field of biotechnology. For this reason, biomedical research has increasingly moved toward the design and implementation of microfabricated systems to efficiently improve technologies such as drug delivery,[1] diagnostics,[2] and tissue engineering ...
Christopher J, Bettinger +5 more
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Clinical Outcomes of Silk Patch in Acute Tympanic Membrane Perforation [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2015 ObjectivesThe silk patch is a thin transparent patch that is produced from silk fibroin. In this study, we investigated the treatment effects of the silk patch in patients with traumatic tympanic membrane perforation (TTMP).MethodsThe closure rate ...
Jun Ho Lee +4 more
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Progress in silk and silk fiber-inspired polymeric nanomaterials for drug delivery
Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2022 The fields of drug and gene delivery have been revolutionized by the discovery and characterization of polymer-based materials. Polymeric nanomaterials have emerged as a strategy for targeted delivery because of features such as their impressive ...
Marisa O. Pacheco +6 more
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Second-order Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Spider Silk [PDF]
, 2017 Asymmetric $\rm \beta$-sheet protein structures in spider silk should induce nonlinear optical interaction such as second harmonic generation (SHG) which is experimentally observed for a radial line and dragline spider silk by using an imaging ...
Hien, Khuat Thi Thu +3 more
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 Natural materials, such as silk and cellulose, have an inspiring set of properties, which have evolved over hundreds of millions of years. In this study, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) are combined to evaluate their ...
Ilona Leppänen +12 more
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Persistence and variation in microstructural design during the evolution of spider silk [PDF]
, 2015 The extraordinary mechanical performance of spider dragline silk is explained by its highly ordered microstructure and results from the sequences of its constituent proteins.
Blackledge, Todd A +8 more
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