Designing Silk-silk Protein Alloy Materials for Biomedical ApplicationsXiao Hu 1,2,3, Solomon Duki 1, Joseph Forys 1, Jeffrey Hettinger 1,2, Justin Buchicchio 1, Tabbetha Dobbins 1,2, Catherine Yang 2,4
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, 2Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Rowan University, 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, 4Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rowan University
Blending is an efficient approach to generate biomaterials with a broad range of properties and combined features. By predicting the molecular interactions between different natural silk proteins, new silk-silk protein alloy platforms with tunable mechanical resiliency, electrical response, optical transparency, chemical processability, biodegradability, or thermal stability can be designed.
