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

The degummed bombyx mori cocoons were then washed with deionized water 4-5 times to remove residual sericin on the surface and dried in a 60°C oven. The degummed silk fibers were then dissolved in a ...

Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Koc University, Sariyer, Istanbul 34450, Turkey Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Koc University, Sariyer, Istanbul 34450, Turkey ...

The World Economic Forum predicts that while 170 million new AI-driven jobs will emerge by 2030, 92 million will be displaced ...

National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China ...

CONSIDERABLE doubt exists as to whether silk fibroin (Bombyx mori) contains a small amount of cystine or whether this amino-acid is entirely absent. Apart from any biological significance ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned Australia is facing one of the hottest summers on record. As the weather warms, many of ...

Researchers have created the world’s first sensors made from covalent organic frameworks (COFs) combined with silk fibroin (SF) microneedles. The sensors can detect a decrease in acidity in the ...

Sleeping on silk is the same idea, just fancier due to the higher-quality material. While silk wouldn’t have made sense for me at 10 or even 15, it has become a go-to in adulthood and is less ...