Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs

JK Sahoo, O Hasturk, T Falcucci… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Silk fibroin has applications in different medical fields such as tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, drug delivery and medical devices. Advances in silk chemistry and …

Functional silk fibroin hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

H Zheng, B Zuo - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, the hydrogels prepared from silk fibroin have received immense
research attention due to the advantages of safe nature, biocompatibility, controllable …

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 …

Recent advances in 3D printing with protein-based inks

X Mu, F Agostinacchio, N Xiang, Y Pei, Y Khan… - Progress in polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a transformative manufacturing strategy,
allowing rapid prototyping, customization, and flexible manipulation of structure-property …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in surgical adhesives for biomedical applications

K Zheng, Q Gu, D Zhou, M Zhou, L Zhang - Smart Materials in Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing demands for the management of hemostasis and tissue sealing drive the
development of novel bioadhesives, which can overcome the disadvantages of conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional naturally derived bioadhesives: from strategic molecular design toward advanced biomedical applications

M Kharaziha, T Scheibel, S Salehi - Progress in Polymer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decades, adhesives derived from natural resources (ie, bioadhesives) have
emerged as promising alternative to the standard wound closure devices, including sutures …

Chemical modification of silk proteins: current status and future prospects

H Liu, Z Sun, C Guo - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
Silk extracted from the cocoon of silkworm has been used as textile materials for thousands
of years. Recently, silk has been redefined as a protein-based biomaterial with great …

Tyrosinase‐mediated hydrogel crosslinking for tissue engineering

S Choi, H Ahn, SH Kim - Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel system based on enzyme‐mediated mild crosslinking reaction has been a
promising approach in tissue engineering. Inspired by skin melanin synthesis and marine …

Crosslinking strategies for silk fibroin hydrogels: Promising biomedical materials

M Farokhi, M Aleemardani, A Solouk… - Biomedical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to their strong biomimetic potential, silk fibroin (SF) hydrogels are impressive
candidates for tissue engineering, due to their tunable mechanical properties …

Mussel-inspired adhesive hydrogels for local immunomodulation

C Xie, Y Li, X Guo, Y Ding, X Lu, S Rao - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The important function of the immune system is to protect the body from foreign pathogens
and tumor cells, and to participate in the process of tissue repair and anti-tumor activity to …