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Protein fibers as performance proteins: new technologies and applications
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Insight has been provided into how some fibrous proteins assemble and how they function in biology and efforts are increasingly being made to employ protein fibers as performance molecules in man-made medical and technical applications.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2005-08-01. It has received 177 citations till now.read more
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A Review: Electrospinning of Biopolymer Nanofibers and their Applications
TL;DR: An overview of applications of nanofibrous biopolymer mats created by the electrospinning process is discussed in this article, where an introduction to biopolymers and the electro spinning process are discussed.
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Biological materials: Functional adaptations and bioinspired designs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct an analysis connecting the structure (nano, micro, meso, and macro) to the mechanical properties important for a specific function, and address how biological systems respond and adapt to external mechanical stimuli.
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Silk Materials – A Road to Sustainable High Technology
TL;DR: This review addresses the use of silk protein as a sustainable material in optics and photonics, electronics and optoelectronic applications, and options represent additional developments for this technology platform that compound the broad utility and impact of this material for medical needs.
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The structure of nanotubes formed by diphenylalanine, the core recognition motif of Alzheimer's β-amyloid polypeptide
TL;DR: It is shown that the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of the nanotubes is identical to the simulated pattern for the single crystal structure of diphenylalanine, affording a new foundation for understanding and rationalizing the properties of this remarkable organic material.
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Assembly mechanism of recombinant spider silk proteins
TL;DR: A microfluidic device in which engineered and recombinantly produced spider dragline silk proteins eADF3 (engineered Araneus diadematus fibroin) and eadF4 are assembled into fibers is presented and a model for dragline Silk aggregation and early steps of fiber assembly in the microscopic regime is proposed.
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Silk-based biomaterials
Gregory H. Altman,Frank Diaz,Caroline M. Jakuba,Tara Calabro,Rebecca L. Horan,Jingsong Chen,Helen H. Lu,John C. Richmond,David L. Kaplan +8 more
TL;DR: Studies with well-defined silkworm silk fibers and films suggest that the core silk fibroin fibers exhibit comparable biocompatibility in vitro and in vivo with other commonly used biomaterials such as polylactic acid and collagen.
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Designing materials for biology and medicine
Robert Langer,David A. Tirrell +1 more
TL;DR: New challenges and directions in biomaterials research are discussed, including synthetic replacements for biological tissues, designing materials for specific medical applications, and materials for new applications such as diagnostics and array technologies.
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Casting Metal Nanowires Within Discrete Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes
Meital Reches,Ehud Gazit +1 more
TL;DR: The observation of the self-assembly of a very short peptide, the Alzheimer's β-amyloid diphenylalanine structural motif, into discrete and stiff nanotubes, resulted in the production of discrete nanowires with a long persistence length.
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Electrospinning of collagen nanofibers.
TL;DR: The experiments demonstrate that it is possible to tailor subtle mechanical properties into a matrix by controlling fiber orientation, and suggest that electrospun collagen may represent a nearly ideal tissue engineering scaffold.
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Electrospinning of silk fibroin nanofibers and its effect on the adhesion and spreading of normal human keratinocytes and fibroblasts in vitro
TL;DR: The results indicate that the silk fibroin (SF) nanofibers may be a good candidate for the biomedical applications, such as wound dressing and scaffolds for tissue engineering.