The sustainable material is based on silk moth cocoons. The silk can hold up to 80 times its own weight and acts like an ...

into the water-based fibroin solution. The solution was then cast on a holographic diffraction-grating master mould to obtain free-standing silk gratings with a grating pitch of 600 grooves per ...

According to Juthamas Ratanavaraporn, director of Chulalongkorn University’s biomedical engineering research center, silk fibroin — one of the natural proteins that gives silk its incredible ...

While several proteases are capable of degrading soluble silk fibroin proteins, certain spiders produce a digestive protease that can degrade solid major ampullate silk fibers in vitro. Because this ...