Production of silk sericin/silk fibroin blend nanofibers

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Xianhua ^a   Tsukada, Masuhiro ^a   Morikawa, Hideaki ^a   Aojima, Kazuki ^a   Zhang, Guangyu ^a   Miura, Mikihiko ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Nanofibers; Silk fibroin; Silk sericin; Structure

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; CROSS SECTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FTIR; RANDOM COIL CONFORMATION; SHEET STRUCTURE; SILK FIBROIN; SILK SERICIN; SOLUTION SYSTEM; TRIFLUOROACETIC ACIDS;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROSPINNING; METHANOL; SILK; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

NANOFIBERS;

ACETIC ACID; ALGORITHMS; CALORIMETRY; FIBERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SILK; SPINNING;

EID: 84862908811     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-510     Document Type: Article

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