Functional silk fibroin materials
Silk fibroin, one structural protein regenerated from silkworm cocoons, offers an easy-accessible and versatile material platform for investigating sequence-conformation-property relationship, hierarchical molecule assembly, and proteinaceous composition for tuning material performance and a broad range of biomedical devices.
Other functional silk materials
- 4D shape morphing and computational simulation with the addition of a cellulose layer
- Light response by genetic modulation
- Bioelectronics and motion monitoring using graphene
Composite silk materials
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Corresponding publications
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- X. Mu, J. Yuen, J. Choi, Y. Zhang, P. Cebe, X. C. Jiang, Y. S. Zhang*, and D. L. Kaplan*. Conformation-driven strategy for resilient and functional protein materials. PNAS, 2022, 119(4), e2115523119
- O. P. Narayan, X. Mu, O. Hasturk, and D. L. Kaplan*. Dynamically Tunable Light Responsive Silk-Elastin-Like Proteins. Acta Biomater. 2021, 121, 214.
- X. Mu, V. Fitzpatrick, and D. L. Kaplan*. From silk spinning to 3D printing: polymer manufacturing using directed hierarchical molecular assembly. Adv. Health. Mater., 2020, 1901552.
- C. C. Guo, C. M. Li*, H. Vu, P. Hanna, A. Lechtig, Y. Qiu, X. Mu, S. J. Ling, A. Nazarian, S. Lin, and D. L. Kaplan*. Thermoplastic moulding of regenerated silk. Nat. Mater., 2020, 19 (1), 102-108.
- S. J. Ling, Q. Wang, D. Zhang, Y. Y. Zhang, X. Mu, D. L. Kaplan*, and M. J. Buehler*. Integration of stiff graphene and tough silk for the design and fabrication of versatile electronic materials. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1705291.