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Recreating Silk's Fibrillar Nanostructure by Spinning Solubilized, Undegummed Silk (Adv. Mater. 15/2025)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Recreating Silk's Fibrillar Nanostructure In article number 2413786, Martin Zaki, Benjamin James Allardyce, and co-workers present a new method to solubilise silk without degumming and use it to successfully wet spin fibres with a nanofibrillar structure akin to natural silk, but twice as tough. This new spinning dope, which contains both undegraded fibroin and sericin, spontaneously exhibited naturally-occurring liquid-liquid phase separation behaviour, which is likely to be a crucial step in replicating native silk spinning. Cover art by Ella Maru Studios.

Source: Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/adma.202570115

Authors: Martin Zaki, Rangam Rajkhowa, Chris Holland, Joselito Macabuhay Razal, Dylan Yalmar Hegh, Pablo Mota‐Santiago, Peter Lynch, Benjamin James Allardyce

Institutions: Deakin University, University of Sheffield, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australian Synchrotron

Language: English

Topic: Silk-based biomaterials and applications

Subfield: Biomaterials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4409546479

FWCI: 0.376

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