Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been intimately linked to the
development of industrial activities in the 20th century and, consequently, to the …

Historically, the term 'keratin'stood for all of the proteins extracted from skin modifications,
such as horns, claws and hooves. Subsequently, it was realized that this keratin is actually a …

This work reports a scalable method to synthesize hierarchically porous, hetero-atom doped
activated carbon nanosheet from waste biomass− human hair, and demonstrates the use of …

Keratin from hair or wool has been proposed as an appropriate material for producing films
or cell cultivation scaffolds. The current study was performed to characterize two different …

The putative transformation of α-helices into β-sheets has been studied for more than 50
years in the case of hard α-keratin. In a previous study of stretched keratin fibers, we …

Intermediate filaments (IFs), in addition to microtubules and microfilaments, are one of the
three major components of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells, playing a vital role in …

Intermediate filaments (IFs) are structural elements of eukaryotic cells with distinct
mechanical properties. Tissue integrity is severely impaired, in particular in skin and muscle …

Eukaryotic cells contain three cytoskeletal filament systems that exhibit very distinct
assembly properties, supramolecular architectures, dynamic behaviour and mechanical …

Human amniotic membrane (AM) is frequently used as a substrate for ocular surface
reconstruction. Its disadvantages (eg, reduced transparency and biomechanical strength …

The structural proteins that comprise∼ 90% of animal hair have the potential to record
environmentally and physiologically determined variation in δ2H and δ18O values of body …