Recent progress in natural biopolymers conductive hydrogels for flexible wearable sensors and energy devices: materials, structures, and performance

C Cui, Q Fu, L Meng, S Hao, R Dai… - ACS applied bio …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Natural biopolymer-based conductive hydrogels, which combine inherent renewable,
nontoxic features, biocompatibility and biodegradability of biopolymers, and excellent …

How to define and study structural proteins as biopolymer materials

K Numata - Polymer Journal, 2020 - nature.com
Structural proteins, including silk fibroins, play an important role in shaping the skeletons
and structures of cells, tissues, and organisms. The amino acid sequences of structural …

Light-based 3D bioprinting of bone tissue scaffolds with tunable mechanical properties and architecture from photocurable silk fibroin

M Rajput, P Mondal, P Yadav, K Chatterjee - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting based on digital light processing (DLP) offers
unique opportunities to prepare scaffolds that mimic the architecture and biomechanical …

In situ forming injectable silk fibroin hydrogel promotes skin regeneration in full thickness burn wounds

D Chouhan, T Lohe, PK Samudrala… - Advanced healthcare …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Full‐thickness skin wounds, associated with deep burns or chronic wounds pose a major
clinical problem. Herein, the development of in situ forming hydrogel using a natural silk …

Influence of water content on the β-sheet formation, thermal stability, water removal, and mechanical properties of silk materials

K Yazawa, K Ishida, H Masunaga, T Hikima… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Silk, which has excellent mechanical toughness and is lightweight, is used as a structural
material in nature, for example, in silkworm cocoons and spider draglines. However, the …

Crystal networks in silk fibrous materials: from hierarchical structure to ultra performance

AT Nguyen, QL Huang, Z Yang, N Lin, G Xu, XY Liu - Small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides a comprehensive survey of the structural characteristics of crystal
networks of silk soft fibrous materials in correlation with the macroscopic properties …

Self-assembled silk fibroin hydrogels: From preparation to biomedical applications

OC Onder, SR Batool, MA Nazeer - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Silk fibroin (SF) from Bombyx mori silkworm has been used as a textile fiber for centuries. In
addition, for decades, SF has been used as a suture material. SF's unique properties, such …

Combinatory approach for developing silk fibroin scaffolds for cartilage regeneration

VP Ribeiro, A da Silva Morais, FR Maia, RF Canadas… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Several processing technologies and engineering strategies have been combined to create
scaffolds with superior performance for efficient tissue regeneration. Cartilage tissue is a …

Processing techniques and applications of silk hydrogels in bioengineering

M Floren, C Migliaresi, A Motta - Journal of functional biomaterials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels are an attractive class of tunable material platforms that, combined with their
structural and functional likeness to biological environments, have a diversity of applications …

Cooperative assembly of a peptide gelator and silk fibroin afford an injectable hydrogel for tissue engineering

B Cheng, Y Yan, J Qi, L Deng, ZW Shao… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Silk fibroin (SF) from Bombyx mori has received increasing interest in biomedical fields,
because of its slow biodegradability, good biocompatibility, and low immunogenicity …