Some mechanistic insights into the gelation of regenerated silk fibroin sol

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 8014-8023

  Nagarkar, Shailesh ^a,b   Patil, Avinash ^a   Lele, Ashish ^a   Bhat, Suresh ^a   Bellare, Jayesh ^b   Mashelkar, R A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GELS; INDUCTION TIME; KINETICS AND MECHANISM; LITHIUM BROMIDE; REGENERATED SILK FIBROIN; SELF-SIMILAR; SILK FIBROIN; SILKWORM SILK FIBERS; SOL-GEL TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WEAK GEL;

COAGULATION; DEIONIZED WATER; DISSOLUTION; GELS; SILK; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS;

GELATION;

COAGULATION; DEIONIZATION; DISSOLVING; GELATION; GELS; SILK; SOLS; WATER;

EID: 69949117678     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801723f     Document Type: Article

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