Engineering silk materials: From natural spinning to artificial processing

Chengchen Guo; Chunmei Li; Xuan Mu; David L. Kaplan

doi:10.1063/1.5091442

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Engineering silk materials: From natural spinning to artificial processing

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Engineering silk materials: From natural spinning to artificial processing

Chengchen Guo, Chunmei Li, Xuan Mu and David L. Kaplan

Applied physics reviews, Vol.7(1), p.11313

03/01/2020

DOI: 10.1063/1.5091442

PMCID: PMC8340942

PMID: 34367402

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Abstract

Silks spun by the arthropods are "ancient" materials historically utilized for fabricating high-quality textiles. Silks are natural protein-based biomaterials with unique physical and biological properties, including particularly outstanding mechanical properties and biocompatibility. Current goals to produce artificially engineered silks to enable additional applications in biomedical engineering, consumer products, and device fields have prompted considerable effort toward new silk processing methods using bio-inspired spinning and advanced biopolymer processing. These advances have redefined silk as a promising biomaterial past traditional textile applications and into tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biodegradable medical devices. In this review, we highlight recent progress in understanding natural silk spinning systems, as well as advanced technologies used for processing and engineering silk into a broad range of new functional materials.

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Title: Subtitle: Engineering silk materials: From natural spinning to artificial processing
Creators: Chengchen Guo - Tufts University
Chunmei Li - Tufts University
Xuan Mu - Tufts University
David L. Kaplan - Tufts University
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Applied physics reviews, Vol.7(1), p.11313
DOI: 10.1063/1.5091442
PMID: 34367402
PMCID: PMC8340942
NLM abbreviation: Appl Phys Rev
ISSN: 1931-9401
eISSN: 1931-9401
Publisher: Amer Inst Physics
Number of pages: 18
Grant note: IOS-1557672 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF) R01EB021264; P41EB002520; R01EY020856; R01AR068048; R01NS092847; R01NS094218; U01EB014976; U19AI131126; R01DE016525 / NIH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA FA9550-17-1-0333 / AFOSR; United States Department of Defense; Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Language: English
Date published: 03/01/2020
Academic Unit: Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
Record Identifier: 9984276455402771

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