Recent trends in protein and peptide-based biomaterials for advanced drug delivery

A Varanko, S Saha, A Chilkoti - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained
momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials …

A review of structure construction of silk fibroin biomaterials from single structures to multi-level structures

Y Qi, H Wang, K Wei, Y Yang, RY Zheng… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The biological performance of artificial biomaterials is closely related to their structure
characteristics. Cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, and differentiation are all strongly …

Silk fibroin nanoparticle as a novel drug delivery system

F Mottaghitalab, M Farokhi, MA Shokrgozar… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Design and synthesis of efficient drug delivery systems are of vital importance for
medicine and healthcare. Nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, in particular …

Silk proteins for biomedical applications: Bioengineering perspectives

B Kundu, NE Kurland, S Bano, C Patra… - Progress in polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
Biomaterials of either natural or synthetic origin are used to fabricate implantable devices, as
carriers for bioactive molecules or as substrates to facilitate tissue regeneration. For the …

Silk fibroin as a functional biomaterial for drug and gene delivery

MA Tomeh, R Hadianamrei, X Zhao - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Silk is a natural polymer with unique physicochemical and mechanical properties which
makes it a desirable biomaterial for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Silk fibroin …

Silk fibroin-based therapeutics for impaired wound healing

T Lehmann, AE Vaughn, S Seal, KW Liechty, C Zgheib - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Impaired wound healing can lead to local hypoxia or tissue necrosis and ultimately result in
amputation or even death. Various factors can influence the wound healing environment …

How to improve physico-chemical properties of silk fibroin materials for biomedical applications?—Blending and cross-linking of silk fibroin—A review

S Grabska-Zielińska, A Sionkowska - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review supplies a report on fresh advances in the field of silk fibroin (SF) biopolymer
and its blends with biopolymers as new biomaterials. The review also includes a subsection …

Silk fibroin as an efficient biomaterial for drug delivery, gene therapy, and wound healing

SUD Wani, MI Zargar, MH Masoodi, S Alshehri… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silk fibroin (SF), an organic material obtained from the cocoons of a silkworm Bombyx mori,
is used in several applications and has a proven track record in biomedicine owing to its …

A mechanical performance study of dual cured thermoset resin systems 3D-printed with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement

MA Rahman, E Hall, L Gibbon, MZ Islam, CA Ulven… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the fastest-growing manufacturing technologies in
modern times. One of the major challenges in the application of 3D-printed polymeric …

Recent research progress of ionic liquid dissolving silks for biomedicine and tissue engineering applications

H Heng, Q Deng, Y Yang, F Wang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ionic liquids (ILs) show a bright application prospect in the field of biomedicine and energy
materials due to their unique recyclable, modifiability, structure of cation and anion …