Stretchable silk fibroin hydrogels.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.08.040
Abstract: Hydrogels derived from silk fibroin (SF) are attractive soft materials in biomedical applications such as drug delivery and tissue engineering. However, SF hydrogels reported so far are generally brittle in tension limiting their load-bearing applications.… read more here.
Keywords: dmaa; network; stretchable silk; silk fibroin ... See more keywords
Feeding Alginate-Coated Liquid Metal Nanodroplets to Silkworms for Highly Stretchable Silk Fibers
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DOI: 10.3390/nano12071177
Abstract: In this study, we fed the larval of Bombyx mori silkworms with nanodroplets of liquid metal (LM) coated with microgels of marine polysaccharides to obtain stretchable silk. Alginate-coated liquid metal nanodroplets (LM@NaAlg) were prepared with… read more here.
Keywords: coated liquid; stretchable silk; liquid metal; alginate coated ... See more keywords