Abstract Design and synthesis of efficient drug delivery systems are of vital importance for
medicine and healthcare. Nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, in particular …

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 …

Animal silk is usually considered to exist as a solid fiber with a highly ordered structure,
formed by the hierarchical assembly starting from a single silk fibroin (SF) chain. However …

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 …

The pharmaceutical utility of silk fibroin (SF) materials for drug delivery was investigated. SF
films were prepared from aqueous solutions of the fibroin protein polymer and crystallinity …

Spiders and silkworms spin silks that outcompete the toughness of all natural and manmade
fibers. Herein, we compare and contrast the spinning of silk in silkworms and spiders, with …

Written by more than 400 subject experts representing diverse academic and applied
domains, this multidisciplinary resource surveys the vanguard of biomaterials and …

Raman microspectroscopy has been used for the first time to determine quantitatively the
orientation of the β-sheets in silk monofilaments from Bombyx mori and Samia cynthia ricini …

Electrospinning is a good method to obtain nanoscale fibers from polymer solutions. In this
paper, we successfully prepared non-woven nanofibers of Bombyx mori and Samia cynthia …

The electrospinning of silk fibroin (SF)/chitosan (CS) blends with different composition ratios
was performed with formic acid as a spinning solvent. The SF/CS blends containing up to …