Deconstruction and reassembly of renewable polymers and biocolloids into next generation structured materials

BL Tardy, BD Mattos, CG Otoni, M Beaumont… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review considers the most recent developments in supramolecular and supraparticle
structures obtained from natural, renewable biopolymers as well as their disassembly and …

From protein building blocks to functional materials

Y Shen, A Levin, A Kamada, Z Toprakcioglu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are the fundamental building blocks for high-performance materials in nature. Such
materials fulfill structural roles, as in the case of silk and collagen, and can generate active …

Micro and nano-scale compartments guide the structural transition of silk protein monomers into silk fibers

D Eliaz, S Paul, D Benyamin, A Cernescu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Silk is a unique, remarkably strong biomaterial made of simple protein building blocks. To
date, no synthetic method has come close to reproducing the properties of natural silk, due …

Use of Bombyx mori silk fibroin in tissue engineering: From cocoons to medical devices, challenges, and future perspectives

A Bucciarelli, A Motta - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin has become a prominent material in tissue engineering (TE) over the last 20
years with almost 10,000 published works spanning in all the TE applications, from skeleton …

A silk-based self-adaptive flexible opto-electro neural probe

Y Zhou, C Gu, J Liang, B Zhang, H Yang… - Microsystems & …, 2022 - nature.com
The combination of optogenetics and electrophysiological recording enables high-precision
bidirectional interactions between neural interfaces and neural circuits, which provides a …

Biomolecular condensates undergo a generic shear-mediated liquid-to-solid transition

Y Shen, FS Ruggeri, D Vigolo, A Kamada… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Membrane-less organelles resulting from liquid–liquid phase separation of biopolymers into
intracellular condensates control essential biological functions, including messenger RNA …

Protein-based bioactive coatings: from nanoarchitectonics to applications

C Fu, Z Wang, X Zhou, B Hu, C Li, P Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based bioactive coatings have emerged as a versatile and promising strategy for
enhancing the performance and biocompatibility of diverse biomedical materials and …

A curcumin-crosslinked bilayer film of soy protein isolate and chitosan with enhanced antibacterial property for beef preservation and freshness monitoring

Y Yong, S Wang, L Li, R Li, HN Ahmad… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, antibacterial and antioxidant bilayer films were prepared by using curcumin
(Cur) crosslinked soy rotein isolate (SPI) and chitosan (CS). Molecular docking simulations …

Single molecule secondary structure determination of proteins through infrared absorption nanospectroscopy

FS Ruggeri, B Mannini, R Schmid… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chemical and structural properties of biomolecules determine their interactions, and
thus their functions, in a wide variety of biochemical processes. Innovative imaging methods …

Challenges in delivering therapeutic peptides and proteins: A silk-based solution

J Wu, JK Sahoo, Y Li, Q Xu, DL Kaplan - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Peptide-and protein-based therapeutics have drawn significant attention over the past few
decades for the treatment of infectious diseases, genetic disorders, oncology, and many …