Preparation and characterization of regenerated fiber from the aqueous solution of Bombyx mori cocoon silk fibroin |
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Authors: | Zhenghua Zhu Takuzo Imada Tetsuo Asakura |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan;bDepartment of Application Engineering, ZheJiang Vocational College of Economic & Trade, HangZhou, ZheJiang 310018, China |
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Abstract: | The regenerated silk fibers with high strength and high biodegradability were prepared from the aqueous solution of Bombyx mori silk fibroin from cocoons with wet spinning method. Although the tensile strength of the regenerated silk fibroin fiber, 210 MPa is still half of the strength of native silk fiber, the diameter of the fiber is about 100 μm which is suitable for monofilament of suture together with high biodegradability. The high concentration (30%, w/v) of the aqueous solution of the silk fibroin which corresponds to the high concentration in the middle silkgland of silkworm was obtained. This was performed by adjusting the pH of the aqueous solution to 10.4 which corresponds to pKa value of the OH group of Tyr residues in the silk fibroin. The mixed solvent, methanol/acetic acid (7:3 in volume ratio) was used as coagulant solvent for preparing the regenerated fiber. The structural change of silk fibroin fiber by stretching was monitored with both 13C solid state NMR and X-ray diffraction methods, indicating that the high strength of the fiber is related with the long-range orientation of the silk fibroin chain with β-sheet structure. |
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Keywords: | Regenerated silk fibroin Bombyx mori NMR X-ray diffraction Mechanical properties |
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