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 …

Biopolymer nanofibrils: Structure, modeling, preparation, and applications

S Ling, W Chen, Y Fan, K Zheng, K Jin, H Yu… - Progress in polymer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biopolymer nanofibrils exhibit exceptional mechanical properties with a unique combination
of strength and toughness, while also presenting biological functions that interact with the …

Processing, mechanical properties and bio-applications of silk fibroin-based high-strength hydrogels

Y Zhao, ZS Zhu, J Guan, SJ Wu - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are an attractive class of materials that possess similar structural and functional
characteristics to wet biological tissues and demonstrate a diversity of applications in …

Physically cross-linked silk fibroin-based tough hydrogel electrolyte with exceptional water retention and freezing tolerance

W Wang, Y Liu, S Wang, X Fu, T Zhao… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Flexible ionic conductive hydrogel is attracting significant interest as it could be one of the
crucial components for multifunctional ionotronic devices. However, their features of …

Application of cellulose to chromatographic media: Cellulose dissolution, and media fabrication and derivatization

T Yao, J Song, Y Hong, Y Gan, X Ren, K Du - Journal of Chromatography A, 2023 - Elsevier
As the cornerstone of chromatographic technology, the development of high-performance
chromatographic media is a crucial means to enhance the purification efficiency of biological …

Solution-based processing for scaffold fabrication in tissue engineering applications: A brief review

E Capuana, F Lopresti, F Carfì Pavia, V Brucato… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fabrication of 3D scaffolds is under wide investigation in tissue engineering (TE)
because of its incessant development of new advanced technologies and the improvement …

Controlling drug partitioning in individual protein condensates through laser-induced microscale phase transitions

A Leppert, J Feng, V Railaite… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Gelation of protein condensates formed by liquid–liquid phase separation occurs in a wide
range of biological contexts, from the assembly of biomaterials to the formation of fibrillar …

Multifunctional hydrogel based on silk fibroin promotes tissue repair and regeneration

D Lin, M Li, L Wang, J Cheng, Y Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The creation of functional hydrogels with robust load‐bearing capacity adaptable to complex
tissue regeneration remains challenging. Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural biomaterial with …

The relationship of rheological properties and the performance of silk fibroin hydrogels in tissue engineering application

J Elango, A Lijnev, C Zamora-Ledezma, F Alexis… - Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogel-based systems are widely used for conventional 3D-cell culture, where cells can
be seeded on or embedded in 3D-matrix gels for cultivation. Several new approaches have …

Crosslinking strategies for silk fibroin hydrogels: Promising biomedical materials

M Farokhi, M Aleemardani, A Solouk… - Biomedical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to their strong biomimetic potential, silk fibroin (SF) hydrogels are impressive
candidates for tissue engineering, due to their tunable mechanical properties …