Research summary
Silk and bio-derived materials for biomedical and electronic applications organise this small corpus. The 2010 Science paper surveys spider- and silkworm-derived silk-protein fibres as a green-chemistry biological template that combines high strength with extensibility unmatched by synthetic materials, with orb webs presented as a bioengineering example and silk processing characterised as occurring in water from a relatively simple protein; the work positions silk-inspired chemistry as a route to high-performance, multifunctional materials [1]. The 2012 Science 'physically transient electronics' paper describes a set of materials, manufacturing schemes, device components, and theoretical design tools for silicon-based CMOS electronics that disappear via bodily resorption after a medically useful lifetime, contrasting this design intent with the indefinite physical invariance that has been the hallmark of modern silicon integrated circuits; the work shows an integrated sensor platform built within this transient paradigm [2]. The 2006 Macromolecules paper characterises β-pleated-sheet self-assembly in Bombyx mori silk fibroin films using thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopy. Films were prepared from 2–5 wt% aqueous fibroin solutions and dried to a less-ordered, β-sheet-free state, then crystallised either by heating above the glass-transition temperature with isothermal hold or by methanol exposure; secondary-structure fractions (random coils, α-helices, β-pleated sheets, turns, side chains) were quantified to track β-sheet content as the principal order parameter relevant to mechanical and biomedical performance [3]. With only three works the synthesis is necessarily compact. Two of the three sit in the broad bio-inspired-materials family ([1] on silk fibres as a green-chemistry template for multifunctional materials, and [3] on β-sheet crystallinity in silk-fibroin films as a structure-property determinant), while [2] addresses transient silicon electronics for resorbable implantable devices. The connecting thread across the corpus is bio-compatible, sometimes bio-derived material systems engineered for biomedical or environmentally responsive applications, rather than a single experimental technique or single chemistry.
Recent publications
- Porosity of 3D biomaterial scaffolds and osteogenesisDOI
- Silk-based biomaterialsDOI
- Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroinDOI
- Silk as a biomaterialDOI
- Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronicsDOI
- New Opportunities for an Ancient MaterialDOI
- Mechanism of silk processing in insects and spidersDOI
- A Physically Transient Form of Silicon ElectronicsDOI
- Determining Beta-Sheet Crystallinity in Fibrous Proteins by Thermal Analysis and Infrared SpectroscopyDOI
- Electrospun silk-BMP-2 scaffolds for bone tissue engineeringDOI
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