Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from agricultural
crops and other biomass. The fibres that comprise cellulose can be broken down into …

Producing functional soft fibers via existing spinning methods is environmentally and
economically costly due to the complexity of spinning equipment, involvement of copious …

Membrane-less organelles resulting from liquid–liquid phase separation of biopolymers into
intracellular condensates control essential biological functions, including messenger RNA …

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 …

Issues of fossil fuel and plastic pollution are shifting public demand toward biopolymer-
based textiles. For instance, silk, which has been traditionally used during at least 5 …

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 …

Synthetic polymers are thoroughly embedded in the modern society and their consumption
grows annually. Efficient routes to their production and processing have never been more …

In this study, we report for the first time a novel silk fibroin (SF) nanofibrous films with robust
mechanical properties that was fabricated by directly dissolving silk in CaCl2–formic acid …

Beta-pleated-sheet crystals are among the most stable of protein secondary structures and
are responsible for the remarkable physical properties of many fibrous proteins, such as silk …