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 …

Silk biomaterials in wound healing and skin regeneration therapeutics: From bench to bedside

D Chouhan, BB Mandal - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Silk biomaterials are known for biomedical and tissue engineering applications including
drug delivery and implantable devices owing to their biocompatible and a wide range of …

4D-bioprinted silk hydrogels for tissue engineering

SH Kim, YB Seo, YK Yeon, YJ Lee, HS Park, MT Sultan… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, four-dimensional (4D) printing is emerging as the next-generation
biofabrication technology. However, current 4D bioprinting lacks biocompatibility or multi …

Moisture sensitive smart yarns and textiles from self‐balanced silk fiber muscles

T Jia, Y Wang, Y Dou, Y Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Smart textiles that sense, interact, and adapt to environmental stimuli have provided exciting
new opportunities for a variety of applications. However, current advances have largely …

Thermoplastic moulding of regenerated silk

C Guo, C Li, HV Vu, P Hanna, A Lechtig, Y Qiu, X Mu… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Early insights into the unique structure and properties of native silk suggested that β-sheet
nanocrystallites in silk would degrade prior to melting when subjected to thermal processing …

Light-based 3D bioprinting of bone tissue scaffolds with tunable mechanical properties and architecture from photocurable silk fibroin

M Rajput, P Mondal, P Yadav, K Chatterjee - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting based on digital light processing (DLP) offers
unique opportunities to prepare scaffolds that mimic the architecture and biomechanical …

Naturally-derived biopolymer nanocomposites: Interfacial design, properties and emerging applications

R **ong, AM Grant, R Ma, S Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Naturally derived materials with hierarchical organization are attractive candidates for high-
performance and functional bionanocomposites because of their renewability …

Use of Bombyx mori silk fibroin in tissue engineering: From cocoons to medical devices, challenges, and future perspectives

A Bucciarelli, A Motta - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin has become a prominent material in tissue engineering (TE) over the last 20
years with almost 10,000 published works spanning in all the TE applications, from skeleton …

Calcium‐modified silk as a biocompatible and strong adhesive for epidermal electronics

JW Seo, H Kim, KH Kim, SQ Choi… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With the increasing interest and demand for epidermal electronics, a strong interface
between a sensor and a biological surface is essential, yet achieving such interface is still a …

Stretchable and heat‐resistant protein‐based electronic skin for human thermoregulation

J Huang, Z Xu, W Qiu, F Chen, Z Meng… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silk protein is one of the a promising materials for on‐skin and implantable electronic
devices due to its biodegradability and biocompatibility. However, its intrinsic brittleness as …