The biomedical use of silk: past, present, future

C Holland, K Numata… - Advanced healthcare …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have long appreciated silk for its lustrous appeal and remarkable physical
properties, yet as the mysteries of silk are unraveled, it becomes clear that this outstanding …

Recent advances in bioprinting using silk protein-based bioinks

J Chakraborty, X Mu, A Pramanick, DL Kaplan… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D printing has experienced swift growth for biological applications in the field of
regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Essential features of bioprinting include …

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 …

Silkworm and spider silk electrospinning: a review

C Belbéoch, J Lejeune, P Vroman, F Salaün - Environmental Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Developing silk sericin-based and carbon dots reinforced bio-nanocomposite films and potential application to litchi fruit

S Mei, B Fu, X Su, H Chen, H Lin, Z Zheng, C Dai… - Lwt, 2022 - Elsevier
Designing cost-effective and sustainable edible packaging films featuring multifunctional
activities (antimicrobial, antioxidant, UV shielding) is of great interest in the field of food …

Modeling and fabrication of silk fibroin–gelatin-based constructs using extrusion-based three-dimensional bioprinting

D Trucco, A Sharma, C Manferdini… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Robotic dispensing-based 3D bioprinting represents one of the most powerful technologies
to develop hydrogel-based 3D constructs with enormous potential in the field of regenerative …

Silk micrococoons for protein stabilisation and molecular encapsulation

U Shimanovich, FS Ruggeri, E De Genst… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Naturally spun silks generate fibres with unique properties, including strength, elasticity and
biocompatibility. Here we describe a microfluidics-based strategy to spin liquid native silk …

From silk spinning to 3D printing: Polymer manufacturing using directed hierarchical molecular assembly

X Mu, V Fitzpatrick, DL Kaplan - Advanced healthcare materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silk spinning offers an evolution‐based manufacturing strategy for industrial polymer
manufacturing, yet remains largely inaccessible as the manufacturing mechanisms in …

Analysis of the pressure requirements for silk spinning reveals a pultrusion dominated process

J Sparkes, C Holland - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Silks are remarkable materials with desirable mechanical properties, yet the fine details of
natural production remain elusive and subsequently inaccessible to biomimetic strategies …

Physicochemical characteristics of organosolv lignins from different lignocellulosic agricultural wastes

S Pongchaiphol, N Suriyachai, B Hararak… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignin is a promising alternative to petrochemical precursors for conversion to industrial-
needed products. Organosolv lignins were extracted from different agricultural wastes …