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 …

Progress in silk materials for integrated water treatments: Fabrication, modification and applications

PM Gore, M Naebe, X Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
The oil-spill accidents in oceans, and discharge/percolation of polluted wastewater by
industries in environment causes severe damage to environment and water sources …

Supramolecular fluorescent hydrogelators as bio-imaging probes

N Mehwish, X Dou, Y Zhao, CL Feng - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular fluorescent hydrogels (SFH) have shown great potential as detecting
probes for biomedical applications such as cell imaging, disease diagnosis, bio-sensing etc …

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 …

Heavily nitrogen doped, graphene supercapacitor from silk cocoon

V Sahu, S Grover, B Tulachan, M Sharma… - Electrochimica …, 2015 - Elsevier
Do** of graphene with nitrogen is of much interest, since it improves the overall
conductivity and supercapacitive properties. Besides conductivity, nitrogen do** also …

Silk fibroin as an immobilization matrix for sensing applications

NJ Prakash, PP Mane, SM George… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of flexible, biocompatible, and environment-friendly sensors has attracted
a significant amount of scientific interest for the past few decades. Among all the natural …

Natural silk for energy and sensing applications: a review

IM Badawy, BA Ali, WA Abbas, NK Allam - Environmental Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Biomaterials appear promising for creating wearable and electronic devices. For instance,
natural silk is flexible, durable, comfortable, breathable and abundant. Silk can take many …

Electricity from the silk cocoon membrane

B Tulachan, SK Meena, RK Rai, C Mallick… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Silk cocoon membrane (SCM) is an insect engineered structure. We studied the electrical
properties of mulberry (Bombyx mori) and non-mulberry (Tussar, Antheraea mylitta) SCM …

Silk-based wearable devices for health monitoring and medical treatment

Y Song, C Hu, Z Wang, L Wang - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Previous works have focused on enhancing the tensile properties, mechanical flexibility,
biocompatibility, and biodegradability of wearable devices for real-time and continuous …

Super-strong and intrinsically fluorescent silkworm silk from carbon nanodots feeding

S Fan, X Zheng, Q Zhan, H Zhang, H Shao, J Wang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2019 - Springer
Fluorescent silk is fundamentally important for the development of future tissue engineering
scaffolds. Despite great progress in the preparation of a variety of colored silks, fluorescent …