Facile Preparation of Biocompatible Silk Fibroin/Cellulose Nanocomposite Films with High Mechanical Performance

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 6227-6236

  Feng, Yanfei ^a   Li, Xiufang ^a,b   Li, Mingzhong ^b   Ye, Dezhan ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   You, Renchuan ^a   Xu, Weilin ^a  

^a WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Cellulose; Lithium bromide; Mechanical property; Nanofibrils; Silk fibroin

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BLENDING; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FILMS; DEGRADATION; FILM PREPARATION; GELATION; LITHIUM; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AQUEOUS LITHIUM BROMIDE; CELLULOSE NANOFIBRILS (CNFS); LITHIUM BROMIDE; MICRO-CRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; NANO-FIBRILS; REGENERATED SILK FIBROIN; SILK FIBROIN; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

BIODEGRADABILITY; CELLULOSE FILM; DEGRADABILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; REGENERATED CELLULOSE; SILK;

EID: 85021903186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b01161     Document Type: Article

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