Engineered Silk Interfaces
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Introduction Past experiments have already proven that silk, a natural protein produced by silkworms and spiders, exhibit intriguing physical properties such as exceptionally high moduli and toughness. Silk fibroins (SF) can be further reconstituted into ultrathin (<100 nm) films while retaining most of these properties for a wide variety of bioapplications. These ultrathin films can be further enhanced by incorporating materials with them to create nanocomposites; in particular, addition of graphene oxide (GO) can increase the ultimate stress the film can take up to about 200%. But not affecting ultimate strain. Hence, the goal of this research was to improve the ultimate strain by adding dopamine (DA) to the SF-GO nanocomposite.
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