Continuous Wet Spinning of Regenerated Silk Fibers from Spinning Dopes Containing 4% Fibroin Protein
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Abstract
The wet spinning of fibers from regenerated silk fibroin has long been a research goal. Due to the degradation of the molecular structure of the fibroin protein during the preparation of the regenerated silk fibroin solution, fibroin concentrations with at least 10% protein content are required to achieve sufficient viscosity for wet spinning. In this study, a spinning dope formulation of regenerated silk fibroin is presented that shows a rheological behavior similar to that of native silk fibroin isolated from the glands of B. mori silkworm larvae. In addition, we present a wet-spinning process that enables, for the first time, the continuous wet spinning of regenerated silk fibroin with only 4% fibroin protein content into an endless fiber. Furthermore, the tensile strength of these wet-spun regenerated silk fibroin fibers per percentage of fibroin is higher than that of all continuous spinning approaches applied to regenerated and native silk fibroin published so far.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 13492 |
| Journal | International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Aug 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-7440-9277/work/142239112 |
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| Scopus | 85170222522 |
| Mendeley | 6245ea5d-1dd8-3cb4-8d36-e66edc56b9f2 |
| WOS | 001064171900001 |
| PubMed | 37686298 |
| ORCID | /0000-0002-5405-0981/work/182335854 |
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Keywords
- Bombyx mori, Silk fibroin, Tensile properties, Wet spinning, silk fibroin, tensile properties, wet spinning, Fibroins, Rheology, Bombyx, Silk, Animals, Larva