Growing silk fibroin in advanced materials for food security
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Sun, Hui
Marelli, Benedetto
Date Issued
January 19, 2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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Sun, Hui and Marelli, Benedetto. 2021. "Growing silk fibroin in advanced materials for food security."
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Abstract
This perspective provides an overview of the micro-/nanofabrication methods developed for structural biopolymers, highlighting recent advances in the rapid and ease construction of complex and multifunctional silk fibroin-based devices by integrating top-down manufacturing with bottom-up molecular self-assembly. Of particular interest is the development of a new nanofabrication strategy that employs templated crystallization to direct silk fibroin folding and assembly from a suspension of disordered, random coil molecules to ordered, hierarchical mesostructured materials. Such advancements in structural biopolymers fabrication provide the basis for engineering a new generation of technical materials that can be interfaced with food and plants.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-020-00003-x
