TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of new smart materials and spinning systems inspired by natural silks and their applications
AU - Cheng, Jie
AU - Lee, Sang Hoon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2015R1A2A1A09004998), Republic of Korea.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Cheng and Lee.
PY - 2016/1/12
Y1 - 2016/1/12
N2 - Silks produced by spiders and silkworms are charming natural biological materials with highly optimized hierarchical structures and outstanding physicomechanical properties. The superior performance of silks relies on the integration of a unique protein sequence, a distinctive spinning process, and complex hierarchical structures. Silks have been prepared to form a variety of morphologies and are widely used in diverse applications, for example, in the textile industry, as drug delivery vehicles, and as tissue engineering scaffolds. This review presents an overview of the organization of natural silks, in which chemical and physical functions are optimized, as well as a range of new materials inspired by the desire to mimic natural silk structure and synthesis.
AB - Silks produced by spiders and silkworms are charming natural biological materials with highly optimized hierarchical structures and outstanding physicomechanical properties. The superior performance of silks relies on the integration of a unique protein sequence, a distinctive spinning process, and complex hierarchical structures. Silks have been prepared to form a variety of morphologies and are widely used in diverse applications, for example, in the textile industry, as drug delivery vehicles, and as tissue engineering scaffolds. This review presents an overview of the organization of natural silks, in which chemical and physical functions are optimized, as well as a range of new materials inspired by the desire to mimic natural silk structure and synthesis.
KW - Biomimetic
KW - Hierarchical structure
KW - Protein primary sequence
KW - Self-assembly
KW - Silk
KW - Silk-inspired functional materials
KW - Spinning
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U2 - 10.3389/fmats.2015.00074
DO - 10.3389/fmats.2015.00074
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85019842182
SN - 2296-8016
VL - 2
JO - Frontiers in Materials
JF - Frontiers in Materials
M1 - 74
ER -