Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in the use of fibre-based products
and structures for biomedical applications, with new fibrous materials and manufacturing …

Abstract 3D printing has experienced swift growth for biological applications in the field of
regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Essential features of bioprinting include …

Silk fibroin is a protein with a unique combination of properties and is widely studied for
biomedical applications. The extraction of fibroin (degumming) from the silk filament impacts …

Synthetic silk production has undergone significant technological and commercial advances
over the past 5 years, with fibers from most labs and companies now regularly matching the …

Silk from silkworms and spiders is an exceptionally important natural material, inspiring a
range of new products and applications due to its high strength, elasticity, and toughness at …

Silkworm cocoons are removed in the industrial process when the cocoons are stained or
reeled as dupion. Furthermore, a tremendous amount of used silk clothes is discarded …

As a hydrogel membrane grown on the gas–liquid interface by bacterial culture that can be
industrialized, bacterial cellulose (BC) cannot give full play to the advantages of its natural …

Regenerated silk fibers typically fall short of silkworm cocoon fibers in mechanical properties
due to reduced fiber crystal structure and alignment. One approach to address this has been …

Low-molecular weight (LMW) silk was utilized as a LMW silk plasticizer for regenerated silk,
generating weak physical crosslinks between high-molecular weight (HMW) silk chains in …

Over the past two decades, significant advancements have been made in the scalable
production and commercialization of microbially‐produced recombinant protein polymers …