Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs

JK Sahoo, O Hasturk, T Falcucci… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Silk fibroin has applications in different medical fields such as tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, drug delivery and medical devices. Advances in silk chemistry and …

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 …

Polymorphic regenerated silk fibers assembled through bioinspired spinning

S Ling, Z Qin, C Li, W Huang, DL Kaplan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Progress and trends in artificial silk spinning: a systematic review

A Koeppel, C Holland - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2017 - ACS Publications
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 …

Water‐stable silk films with reduced β‐sheet content

HJ Jin, J Park, V Karageorgiou, UJ Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Silk fibers have outstanding mechanical properties. These fibers are insoluble in organic
solvents and water, are biocompatible, and exhibit slow biodegradation in vitro and in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Polymeric materials based on silk proteins

JG Hardy, LM Römer, TR Scheibel - Polymer, 2008 - Elsevier
Silks are protein-based fibers made by arthropods for a variety of task-specific applications.
In this article, we review the key features of silk proteins. This article initially focuses on the …

Silk‐based biomaterials in biomedical textiles and fiber‐based implants

G Li, Y Li, G Chen, J He, Y Han… - Advanced healthcare …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biomedical textiles and fiber‐based implants (BTFIs) have been in routine clinical use to
facilitate healing for nearly five decades. Amongst the variety of biomaterials used, silk …

Preparation of non-woven nanofibers of Bombyx mori silk, Samia cynthia ricini silk and recombinant hybrid silk with electrospinning method

K Ohgo, C Zhao, M Kobayashi, T Asakura - Polymer, 2003 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a good method to obtain nanoscale fibers from polymer solutions. In this
paper, we successfully prepared non-woven nanofibers of Bombyx mori and Samia cynthia …

[HTML][HTML] Spinning from nature: Engineered preparation and application of high-performance bio-based fibers

Z Xu, M Wu, Q Ye, D Chen, K Liu, H Bai - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Many natural fibers are lightweight and display remarkable strength and toughness. These
properties originate from the fibers' hierarchical structures, assembled from the molecular to …

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: past, present, and future

AJ Salgado, JM Oliveira, A Martins, FG Teixeira… - International review of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tissue and organ repair still represents a clinical challenge. Tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine (TERM) is an emerging field focused on the development of …