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Biomaterials: Recombinant Silk Fiber Properties Correlate to Prefibrillar Self‐Assembly (Small 12/2019)
Author(s) -
Xu Lingling,
WeatherbeeMartin Nathan,
Liu XiangQin,
Rainey Jan K.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201970065
Subject(s) - silk , dispersity , spinning , materials science , fiber , polymer science , self assembly , nanoparticle , polymer chemistry , recombinant dna , polymer , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , chemistry , biochemistry , engineering , gene
In article number 1805294 , Xiang‐Qin Liu, Jan K. Rainey, and co‐workers demonstrate that improved self‐assembled silk protein nanoparticle monodispersity in the concentrated solubilized spinning dope state correlates with dramatically improved wet‐spun recombinant aciniform silk fiber mechanical behavior. The nature and dispersity of self‐assembly in the spinning dope provides a straightforward property to tweak in optimization of processing of silk materials.