Spider Silk-CBD-Cellulose Nanocrystal Composites: Mechanism of Assembly
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Spider Silk-CBD-Cellulose Nanocrystal Composites: Mechanism of Assembly
The fabrication of cellulose-spider silk bio-nanocomposites comprised of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and recombinant spider silk protein fused to a cellulose binding domain (CBD) is described. Silk-CBD successfully binds cellulose, and unlike recombinant silk alone, silk-CBD self-assembles into microfibrils even in the absence of CNCs. Silk-CBD-CNC composite sponges and films show changes in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17091573