Silk Fibroin Materials: Processing, Performance and Medical Applications
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials and Devices for Healthcare Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editors
Interests: silk-based functional materials; biomimetic spinning; bioscaffolds; bioelectronics; biosensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Silk fibroin as a natural polymer that has been widely explored due to its abundant resources, good biocompatibility, biodegradability, and excellent mechanical properties, giving it great application potential in biomedicine, optics, energy, and bioelectronics fields. Thanks to their low immune response and low bacterial adherence, silk fibroin materials hold medical application potential. Moreover, silk fibroin is used in various mechanical processing methods, such as dry or wet spinning, electrospinning, casting, vacuum filtration, chemical or physical cross-linking, lyophilization, and 3D printing methods, to fabricate fiber, mat, film, hydrogel, aerogel, and 3D scaffold for various purposes. Genetic engineering methods, as well as physical and chemical modification, have been used for the development of silk fibroin-based materials with excellent performance and multifunctionality. However, many efforts are still required to improve the performance of silk materials and realize more silk products used in the medical field.
This Special Issue aims to develop silk fibroin-related, functional, and smart materials, as well as other silk-based materials. The Special Issue will touch on the design, processing, structure, performance, and application of silk materials. This Special Issue encourages the submission of your interesting findings related to silk fibroin. Research articles and review papers are welcome! To all potential authors of this Special Issue, JFB looks forward to receiving your submissions.
Prof. Dr. Yaopeng Zhang
Dr. Qianqian Niu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- silk fibroin
- biomaterials
- processing methods
- tissue engineering
- bioscaffolds
- bioelectronics
- biomedical applications
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