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Structure of silk fibers. Bombyx mori silk worm 

Structure of silk fibers. Bombyx mori silk worm 

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Silk fibroin from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, has excellent properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradation, non-toxicity, adsorption properties, etc. As a kind of ideal biomaterial, silk fibroin has been widely used since it was first utilized for sutures a long time ago. The degradation behavior of silk biomaterials is obviously important for...

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... silk II structural form of the silk fibroins has been characterized as an antiparallel β-sheet structure. The former structure is a water- soluble structure while the latter excludes water and is insoluble in several solvents including mild acid and alkaline conditions, and several chaotropes [33] (Table 1). In regenerated silk fibroins, the silk I structure easily converts to a β-sheet structure by chemical methods such as treatment with methanol [34][35][36]. ...

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