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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 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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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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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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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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The preparation of insoluble fibroin films induced by degummed fibroin or fibroin microspheres
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 2004 Blending degummed fibroin (DF) or insoluble fibroin microspheres with concentrated fibroin solution, the insoluble films were obtained through drying the solution at 40-45 degrees C. The conformation of silk fibroin films was analyzed by infrared spectrum and X-ray diffractometry.
Qiang, Lv +4 more
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Leucine-rich fibroin gene of the Japanese wild silkmoth, Rhodinia fugax (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2008 We cloned and characterized a partial fibroin gene of Rhodinia fugax (Saturniidae). The gene encodes a fibroin consisting mainly of orderly arranged repeats, each of which is divided into a polyalanine and a nonpolyalanine block, similar to the fibroins ...
Hideki SEZUTSU +2 more
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Preparation and characterization of silk fibroin as a biomaterial with potential for drug delivery
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2012 Background Degummed silk fibroin from Bombyx mori (silkworm) has potential carrier capabilities for drug delivery in humans; however, the processing methods have yet to be comparatively analyzed to determine the differential effects on the silk protein ...
Zhang Hao +7 more
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