Some of the most abundant biomass on earth is sequestered in fibrous biopolymers like
cellulose, chitin, and silk. These types of natural materials offer unique and striking …

Biobased resources are proposed as next‐generation materials for advanced application.
Among them, silk fibroin, a protein‐based material generally obtained from Bombyx mori …

Biopolymer nanofibrils exhibit exceptional mechanical properties with a unique combination
of strength and toughness, while also presenting biological functions that interact with the …

With the emergence of nanotechnology, researchers become more interested in studying
the unique properties of nanoscale materials. Electrospinning, an electrostatic fiber …

A variety of artificial spinning methods have been applied to produce regenerated silk fibers;
however, how to spin regenerated silk fibers that retain the advantages of natural silks in …

Abstract Design and synthesis of efficient drug delivery systems are of vital importance for
medicine and healthcare. Nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, in particular …

Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

More than 400 million years of natural selection acting throughout the arthropoda has
resulted in highly specialized and energetically efficient processes to produce protein-based …

Silk proteins belong to a class of unique, high molecular weight, block copolymer-like
proteins that have found widespread use in biomaterials and regenerative medicine. The …

Regenerated silk fibroin materials show properties dependent on the methods used to
process them. The molecular structures of B. mori silk fibroin both in solution and in solid …