Silk nanofibre arranging improves its fibre mat transparency

Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-61

  Terada, Dohiko ^a   Yoshikawa, Chiaki ^a   Hattori, Shinya ^a   Teramoto, Hidetoshi ^b   Kameda, Tsunenori ^b   Tamada, Yasushi ^b   Kobayashi, Hisatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomaterial; Biomimicry; Nanomaterial

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOMATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SILK; TISSUE; TRANSPARENCY;

BIOMIMICRY; BOMBYX MORI; CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; LONG-WAVELENGTH-RANGE; MICRON SCALE; NANOMATERIAL; NON-WOVEN; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SILK FIBROIN; VISIBLE LIGHT;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84904339021     PISSN: 20459858     EISSN: 20459866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/bbn.11.00004     Document Type: Article

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