Since it was first discovered, thousands of years ago, silkworm silk has been known to be an
abundant biopolymer with a vast range of attractive properties. The utilization of silk fibroin …

Spiders produce a variety of silks, and the cloning of genes for silk fibroins reveals a clear
link between protein sequence and structure–property relationships. The fibroins produced …

An Updated Edition of the Classic Text Polymers constitute the basis for the plastics, rubber,
adhesives, fiber, and coating industries. The Fourth Edition of Introduction to Physical …

Spider silk has outstanding mechanical properties despite being spun at close to ambient
temperatures and pressures using water as the solvent. The spider achieves this feat of …

This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

An electrospinning method was used to fabricate silk fibroin (SF) nanofiber nonwovens for
cell culture of normal human keratinocytes and fibroblasts. The electrospinning of …

We report a study of self-assembled beta-pleated sheets in B. mori silk fibroin films using
thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopy. B. mori silk fibroin may stand as an exemplar of …

Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural fibrous polymer with strong potential for many biomedical
applications. SF has attracted interest in the field of bone tissue engineering due to its …

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

Commercial silkworm silk is presumed to be much weaker and less extensible than spider
dragline silk, which has been hailed as a'super-fibre',,,. But we show here that the …