Silks are a diverse family of natural materials with extraordinary mechanical properties such
as high tensile strength and extensibility, as well as reported biological compatibility. In …

Silk fibroin (SF) fiber from the silkworm Bombyx mori in the Silk II form has been used as an
excellent textile fiber for over 5000 years. Recently it has been developed for a range of …

Spider silks are among the toughest known materials and thus provide models for
renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable biopolymers. However, the entirety of their …

Many biomaterials have been proposed as eco-friendly piezoelectric materials. This
research investigates the piezoelectricity of an electrospun silk nanofiber membrane for …

Injury of articular cartilage leads to an imbalance in tissue homeostasis, and due to the poor
self-healing capacity of cartilage the affected tissue often exhibits osteoarthritic changes. In …

The past 15 years have seen a major increase in our understanding of the structure and
dynamics of Bombyx mori silk fibroin, largely as a result of NMR studies. We now have a …

Silk derived from cocoons of the female silkworm (Bombyx mori) was made into three kinds
of test material, degummed fiber, liquid fibroin and regenerated silk fibroin membrane …

At first sight the application of 19F NMR to biological samples may seem like a paradox, as
fluorine scarcely occurs in organic matter. However, this very lack of natural abundance in …

Recently, genetic studies have revealed the entire amino acid sequence of Bombyx mori silk
fibroin. It is known from X-ray diffraction studies that the β-sheet crystalline structure (silk II) of …

We used two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to disentangle the broad infrared band in
the amide II vibrational regions of Bombyx mori native silk films, identifying the single amide …