Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Bioactive hierarchical silk fibers created by bioinspired self-assembly

  • Linpeng Fan,
  • Jing-Liang Li,
  • Zengxiao Cai,
  • Xungai Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22673-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The creation of silk fibres using bioinspired approaches is of interest for biomaterials development. Here, the authors report on the creation of mimetic hierarchical silk fibres by the rotational self-assembly of silk fibroin droplets and demonstrate the creation of bioactive silk materials.