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 …

Silk proteins are biopolymers produced by spinning organisms that have been studied
extensively for applications in materials engineering, regenerative medicine, and devices …

An overview of solid-state NMR structural studies on various silk forms and analogs
conducted by the authors' research groups is presented. The well-studied silkworm and …

This study showed that Bombyx mori silk protein could be selectively induced to fold into
fibrils dominated by either cross-or parallel-β-sheet structure, where the β-strands arrange …

Bombyx mori silk fibroin molecule is known to exist in two distinct structural forms: silk I
(unprocessed silk fibroin) and silk II (processed silk fibroin). Using synthetic peptides, we …

We have previously demonstrated that the formation of and coalescence from polymer−
cyclodextrin (CD) inclusion compounds (ICs) represents a very useful approach to modify …

Silk sericin (SS) is a natural polymer widely studied in the design of biodegradable materials
for cosmetic, biomedical, food, and chemical applications. This work was designed to …

Owing to the shortage of donor corneas and issues associated with conventional corneal
transplantation, corneal tissue engineering has emerged as a promising therapeutic …

Solid-state NMR is a powerful analytical technique to determine the composite structure of
Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF). In our previous paper, we proposed a lamellar structure for Ala …

It is important to study the hydrogen-bonding character in hydrophilic polymers in detail to
create new hydrophilic synthetic polymers controlled by hydration. In this paper, the role of …