The new silk road: silk fibroin blends and composites for next generation functional and multifunctional materials design

A Reizabal, CM Costa, L Pérez-Álvarez… - Polymer …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Silk Fibroin (SF), a protein typically extracted from Bombyx mori cocoons, is considered to
play an essential role in advancing the development of a more sustainable generation of …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired silk fibroin materials: From silk building blocks extraction and reconstruction to advanced biomedical applications

X Yao, S Zou, S Fan, Q Niu, Y Zhang - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin has become a promising biomaterial owing to its remarkable mechanical
property, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and sufficient supply. However, it is difficult to …

Silk fibroin as a green material

MK DeBari, CI King III, TA Altgold… - … Biomaterials Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Silk fibroin has been explored as a suitable biomaterial due to its biocompatibility, tunable
degradability, low toxicity, and mechanical properties. To harness silk fibroin's innate …

[HTML][HTML] Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

Regenerated silk fibroin loaded with natural additives: a sustainable approach towards health care

N Jaya Prakash, X Wang… - Journal of Biomaterials …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract According to World Health Organization (WHO), on average, 0.5 Kg of hazardous
waste is generated per bed every day in high-income countries. The adverse effects …

Silk fibroin as sustainable advanced material: material properties and characteristics, processing, and applications

A Reizabal, CM Costa, L Pérez‐Álvarez… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biobased resources are proposed as next‐generation materials for advanced application.
Among them, silk fibroin, a protein‐based material generally obtained from Bombyx mori …

[HTML][HTML] Silk fibroin-based biomaterials for biomedical applications: a review

TP Nguyen, QV Nguyen, VH Nguyen, TH Le… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since it was first discovered, thousands of years ago, silkworm silk has been known to be an
abundant biopolymer with a vast range of attractive properties. The utilization of silk fibroin …

Protein composites from silkworm cocoons as versatile biomaterials

F Wang, C Guo, Q Yang, C Li, P Zhao, Q Xia… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Silk is a naturally occurring biopolymer formed into fibers composed primarily of fibroin and
sericin proteins. The outstanding mechanical properties of silk fibroin (SF) provides …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in development of functional spider silk-based hybrid materials

AP Kiseleva, PV Krivoshapkin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Silkworm silk is mainly known as a luxurious textile. Spider silk is an alternative to silkworm
silk fibers and has much more outstanding properties. Silk diversity ensures variation in its …

[HTML][HTML] Silk fibroin materials: Biomedical applications and perspectives

G De Giorgio, B Matera, D Vurro, E Manfredi… - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
The golden rule in tissue engineering is the creation of a synthetic device that simulates the
native tissue, thus leading to the proper restoration of its anatomical and functional integrity …