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Effects of Additives and Templates on Calcium Carbonate Mineralization in vitro [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceThe review focuses on the effects of several important additives and templates controlling the calcium carbonate crystals formation and the complexity of the crystal morphologies in vitro.
Bourrat, Xavier, Feng, Qingling, Ren, Dongni   +2 more
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Andrographolide-loaded silk fibroin nanoparticles

RSC Advances, 2018
Andrographolide (AP) is a diterpenoid separated from Andrographis paniculata with a wide spectrum of biological activities including anti-inflammatory, anticancer, hepatoprotective, and antihyperlipidemic.
Xu Zhongyu, Ren Jiangmeng, Jing Qiufang, Ren Fuzheng, Huang Mengting, Ding Wenrui, Zeng Bubing   +6 more
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Toward Spider Glue: Long Read Scaffolding for Extreme Length and Repetitious Silk Family Genes AgSp1 and AgSp2 with Insights into Functional Adaptation

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019
An individual orb weaving spider can spin up to seven different types of silk, each with unique functions and material properties. The capture spiral silk of classic two-dimensional aerial orb webs is coated with an amorphous glue that functions to ...
Sarah D. Stellwagen, Rebecca L. Renberg
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Fabrication Technologies for Soft, Multimaterial Optical Fibers for In Vivo Diagnostics and Phototherapy, With a Focus on Extrusion Printing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Soft multimaterial optical fibers integrate multiple functionalities—such as waveguiding, side emission, sensing, drug delivery or actuation—into a single filament for wearable, implantable, and tissue‐integrated devices for diagnostics and phototherapy.
Zahra Kafrashian, Jun Feng, Aránzazu del Campo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science and sensuality of silk [PDF]

, 2005
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-45).For five thousand years, silk threads have woven through the fabric of human ...
Boyce, Jennifer E. (Jennifer Elaine)
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Fabrication, Properties, and Applications of Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores cutting‐edge biomaterials and fabrication techniques for scaffolds in bone tissue regeneration. It conducts a critical comparison of various strategies, meticulously analyzes the key contradictions in the field, and outlines an integrated development path spanning from biomaterial selection to clinical application, while ...
Shangsi Chen, Min Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Vat Polymerization 3D Printing for Controlled Drug Release Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vat polymerization (VP) 3D printing, a light‐based additive manufacturing technique, has emerged as a promising technique for fabricating complex drug delivery systems with high precision and spatial resolution. This layer‐by‐layer manufacturing process enables the creation of intricate geometries and customizable architectures, which are ...
Hafiz Busari, O. Thompson Mefford, M. Aaron Vaughn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of supercontraction in regenerated silkworm (Bombyx mori) silk fibers [PDF]

, 2019
The conditions required for the emergence of supercontraction in regenerated silkworm (Bombyx mori) silk fibers are assessed through an experimental approach that combines the spinning of regenerated fibers with controlled properties and their ...
Asakura, Tetsuo, Elices, Manuel, Gañán-Calvo, Alfonso M., Guinea Tortuero, Gustavo Victor, Madurga, Rodrigo, Matsuda, Hironori, Nishimura, Akio, Pérez-Rigueiro, José, Tasei, Yugo   +8 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A robust spectroscopic method for the determination of protein conformational composition - application to the annealing of silk [PDF]

, 2018
The physical and mechanical properties of structural proteins such as silk fibroin can be modified by controlled conformational change, which is regularly monitored by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy by peak fitting of the amide I band envelope ...
Belton, DJ, Kaplan, DL, Perry, CC, Plowright, R   +3 more
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