Composite materials based on silk proteins

By J. Hardy, T. Scheibel. 2010

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A number of animals have evolved to produce silk-based composite materials for a variety of task-specific applications. The review initially focuses on the composite structure of silk fibers produced naturally by silkworms and spiders, followed by the preparation and applications of man-made composite materials (including fibers, films, foams, gels and particulates) incorporating silk proteins in combination with other polymers (both natural and synthetic) and/or inorganic particles.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Genetics, Insect Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Potentiality of utilising natural textile materials for engineering composites applications (2014, background): “The utilisation of this kind of fibres as reinforcement is minimal may be due to their major role in garment and apparel and lower mechanical properties [18–23].”
• Can silk become an effective reinforcing fibre? A property comparison with flax and glass reinforced composites (2014, unknown): “silks for such biomedical applications [9-12].”