Recreating Silk's Fibrillar Nanostructure by Spinning Solubilized, Undegummed Silk (Adv. Mater. 15/2025)
Recreating Silk's Fibrillar Nanostructure In article number 2413786, Martin Zaki, Benjamin James Allardyce, and co-workers present a new method to solubilise silk without degumming and use it to successfully wet spin fibres with a nanofibrillar structure akin to natural silk, but twice as tough. This new spinning dope, which contains both undegraded fibroin and sericin, spontaneously exhibited naturally-occurring liquid-liquid phase separation behaviour, which is likely to be a crucial step in replicating native silk spinning. Cover art by Ella Maru Studios.
Authors
- Dylan Hegh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7552-3664)
- Rangam Rajkhowa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-9126)
- Benjamin James Allardyce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4009-3371)
- Peter A. Lynch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-4062)
- Pablo Mota‐Santiago (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1537-4318)
- Joselito M. Razal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-3702)
- Chris Holland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0913-2221)
- Martin Zaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8050-5390)
Institutions
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (AU)
- Deakin University (AU)
- Australian Synchrotron (AU)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202570115
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.60