Yang Li

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of silkworm and spider dragline fibers under stretching is compared based on a combined structural and mechanical analysis, and the molecular origin of the strain-hardening of spider silk filaments is addressed in comparison to rubber and Kevlar.

TL;DR: An in vivo uptake of dyes into domesticated silkworms is demonstrated, leading to the direct production of intrinsically colored silk by the silkworms, in a biocompatible and luminescent silk scaffold that allows better visualization of cells and monitoring of the scaffold performance over time.

TL;DR: It is found that chondroitin sulfate can suppress the supersaturation-driven interfacial structure mismatch between the hydroxyapatite crystal and the substrate and promote the formation of ordered hydroxyAPatite nanocrystallite assemblies.

TL;DR: A silkworm model is presented to investigate the molecular properties-directed absorption, distribution and excretion of fluorescent compounds as model xenobiotics through introducing the compounds into the Silkworm's diet and monitoring the resulting color and fluorescence in the silkworm's body.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method of producing intrinsically colored, luminescent silk fibroin by feeding silkworms with feed comprising the luminecent dyes as well as the appropriate degumming process to remove sericin while retaining the dyes in silk fibrosin is described.