Advancing the frontiers of silk fibroin protein-based materials for futuristic electronics and clinical wound-healing (Invited review)

LD Koh, J Yeo, YY Lee, Q Ong, M Han… - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present review will introduce the basic concepts of silk-based electronics/
optoelectronics including the latest technological advances on the use of silk fibroin in …

The new silk road: silk fibroin blends and composites for next generation functional and multifunctional materials design

A Reizabal, CM Costa, L Pérez-Álvarez… - Polymer …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Silk Fibroin (SF), a protein typically extracted from Bombyx mori cocoons, is considered to
play an essential role in advancing the development of a more sustainable generation of …

Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

Patterning of metal nanowire networks: methods and applications

Q Huang, Y Zhu - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
With the advance in flexible and stretchable electronics, one-dimensional nanomaterials
such as metal nanowires have drawn much attention in the past 10 years or so. Metal …

Protein-based electronic skin akin to biological tissues

M Jo, K Min, B Roy, S Kim, S Lee, JY Park, S Kim - Acs nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Human skin provides an interface that transduces external stimuli into electrical signals for
communication with the brain. There has been considerable effort to produce soft, flexible …

Skin impedance measurements with nanomesh electrodes for monitoring skin hydration

R Matsukawa, A Miyamoto, T Yokota… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of continuous monitoring of skin hydration in daily life, to aid in the diagnosis
of skin diseases, is rising. Electrodes that can be worn directly on the skin are attracting …

Silk-templated nanomaterial interfaces for wearables and bioelectronics: advances and prospects

A Ahmed, S Bain, ZH Prottoy, Z Morsada… - ACS Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Soft, wearable, stretchable, and flexible devices are intriguing in electronic fields, as they
offer light weight, user-friendliness, and high-throughput performance. Electronic devices …

An overview of biopolymer-based nanocomposites for optics and electronics

E Colusso, A Martucci - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biopolymer-based nanocomposites are materials composed mainly of biopolymer matrices
in which nanofillers are dispersed. Biopolymers are polymers obtained from some living …

Flexible and reversibly deformable radio-frequency antenna based on stretchable SWCNTs/PANI/Lycra conductive fabric

X Guo, Y Huang, C Wu, L Mao, Y Wang… - Smart Materials and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrated a flexible and reversibly deformable radio-frequency antenna based on
SWCNTs/PANI/Lycra conductive fabric and semipermeable film for wireless wearable …

Fabrication and characterization of silk fibroin/curcumin sustained-release film

X Zhang, Z Chen, H Bao, J Liang, S Xu, G Cheng… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the present work, a sustained-release film composed of silk fibroin (SF), curcumin (Cur),
glutaraldehyde (GA), and glycerol (Gly) was prepared successfully for wound dressings …