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Hidetoshi Teramoto | Zendy; Kenichi Nakajima | Zendy; Chiyuki Takabayashi | Zendy

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Preparation of Elastic Silk Sericin Hydrogel

Author(s) -

Hidetoshi Teramoto,

Kenichi Nakajima,

Chiyuki Takabayashi

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

bioscience biotechnology and biochemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509

H-Index - 116

eISSN - 1347-6947

pISSN - 0916-8451

DOI - 10.1271/bbb.69.845

Subject(s) - sericin , silk , self healing hydrogels , fibroin , biomaterial , polymer science , chemistry , materials science , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , composite material , nanotechnology , engineering

This paper reports a preparation method for silk sericin hydrogel using the Sericin-hope silkworm, whose cocoons consist almost exclusively of sericin. Sericin solution, prepared from Sericin-hope cocoons, contains intact sericin and forms elastic hydrogels with the addition of ethanol. The sericin hydrogel can be prepared without crosslinking by chemicals or irradiation and might be usable as a naturally occurring biomaterial.

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