Biopolymer nanofibrils exhibit exceptional mechanical properties with a unique combination
of strength and toughness, while also presenting biological functions that interact with the …

Tissue engineering is a well-proven technique for the creation of functional alternatives for
regenerative medicine and plays a critical role in patient treatment. Several natural-origin …

The salinity gradient between seawater and river water is a clean energy source and an
alternative solution for the increasing energy demands. A membrane-based reverse …

Recently, considerable attention has been paid to Bombyx mori silk fibroin by a range of
scientists from polymer chemists to biomaterial researchers because it has excellent …

Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) assembly into toxic oligomeric and fibrillar structures is a seminal
event in Alzheimer's disease, therefore blocking this process could have significant …

The design principles of spider dragline silk, nature's high-performance fiber, are still largely
unknown, in particular for the noncrystalline glycine-rich domains, which form the bulk of the …

Taking advantage of recent advances in polarized Raman microspectroscopy, and based on
a rational decomposition of the amide I band, the conformation and orientation of proteins …

Silkworm silk has attracted considerable attention in recent years due to its excellent
mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and promising applications in biomedical sector …

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 …

Much of postgenomic biochemistry and all of structural biology are based on the premise
that the starting point for both understanding specific biochemical processes, such as affinity …