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Bionanocomposites: Silk Fibroin–Substrate Interactions at Heterogeneous Nanocomposite Interfaces (Adv. Funct. Mater. 35/2016)
Author(s) -
Grant Anise M.,
Kim Ho Shin,
Dupnock Trisha L.,
Hu Kesong,
Yingling Yaroslava G.,
Tsukruk Vladimir V.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201670231
Subject(s) - materials science , fibroin , graphene , oxide , nanocomposite , silk , substrate (aquarium) , nanotechnology , layer (electronics) , covalent bond , chemical engineering , composite material , organic chemistry , chemistry , oceanography , engineering , geology , metallurgy
Silk assembly can be controlled by manipulating substrate chemistry and factors relevant to layer‐by‐layer assembly, as described by V. V. Tsukruk and co‐workers on page 6380. Silk assembles into individual fibrils when sheared on hydrophilic graphene oxide while maintaining its globular solution state morphology on hydrophobic reduced graphene oxide as shown on this cover. Molecular Dynamics simulations and high resolution microscopy are used to probe the non‐covalent interactions driving this response.