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 …

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 …

Plasma-treated Bombyx mori cocoon separators for high-performance and sustainable lithium-ion batteries

RFP Pereira, R Gonçalves, HMR Gonçalves… - Materials Today …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The success of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and their unique advantages for electrochemical
energy storage have sped up research in this field. A critical component of LIBs is the …

Improving electricity from silk cocoons through feeding silkworms with silver nanoparticles

C Nambajjwe, WB Musinguzi, S Rwahwire… - Materials Today …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Silk Cocoon Membrane (SCM) a complex natural protein fibrous membrane is
gaining significant attention in the textile industry, the biomedical industry and the research …

Sequential entrap** of Li and S in a conductivity cage of N-doped reduced graphene oxide supercapacitor derived from silk cocoon: a hybrid Li–S-silk …

H Jangir, M Pandey, R Jha, A Dubey, S Verma… - Applied …, 2018‏ - Springer
Li and S compounds are currently exploited for their applications in battery industry. Here,
we discovered that Li–S compounds exhibit supercapacitor like properties in a context …

Natural silkworm cocoon composites with high strength and stiffness constructed in confined cocooning space

L Cheng, X Tong, Z Li, Z Liu, H Huang, H Zhao, F Dai - Polymers, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
In this study, using round paper tubes (PTs) and rectangular cardboard boxes (CBs) as
external constraints to control the size of the cocooning space, we fabricated a series of …

What Is the Relationship between the Faraday's Constant Numbers and Silk Worms as Regards to Quantum Perspective Model?

Ö Tahir - Open Access Library Journal, 2023‏ - scirp.org
This paper attempts to express the Faraday's constant numbers with chemical nucleotide
bases (AT, G, C and U) as regards to Quantum Perspective Model. At first, the exact value of …

Enhanced thermal and mechanical properties of natural silkworm cocoon composites constructed by multi-silkworm larvae simultaneously

L Cheng, Z Li, Z Liu, S Chen, Y Bao, L Gao, X Tong… - Materials Letters, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In this study, we developed a simple route to fabricate natural silkworm cocoon composites
with dense fiber networks and low porosities. The thermal and mechanical properties of …

Silk Fibroin–Based Biomaterial Scaffold in Tissue Engineering: Present Persuasive Perspective

R Dutta, S Chowdhury, K Kar, K Mazumder - … and Translational Medicine, 2024‏ - Springer
Purpose A significant naturally occurring fibrous protein, silk fibroin has great potential for
use in tissue engineering. The technique of combining cells with scaffold materials and …

Soft magnetic memory of silk cocoon membrane

M Roy, A Dubey, SK Singh, K Bhargava, NK Sethy… - Scientific Reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
Silk cocoon membrane (SCM), a solid matrix of protein fiber, responds to light, heat and
moisture and converts these energies to electrical signals. Essentially it exhibits photo …