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Silk Materials – A Road to Sustainable High Technology
This review addresses the use of silk protein as a sustainable material in optics and photonics, electronics and optoelectronic applications. These options represent additional developments for this technology platform that compound the broad utility and impact of this material for medical needs ...[ Learn more ]
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Implantable, multifunctional, bioresorbable optics
An approach that combines enhanced imaging of malignancies, therapeutics, and feedback about therapeutics in a single implantable, biocompatible, and resorbable device is presented. By developing a form of high-quality microstructured optical elements, improved imaging of malignancies and of trea...[ Learn more ]
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Silk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection ab...
A fully degradable, remotely controlled, implantable therapeutic device operating in vivo to counter a Staphylococcus aureus infection that disappears once its function is complete is presented. This class of device provides fully resorbable packaging and electronics that can be turned on remotel...[ Learn more ]
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Nanoscale probing of electron-regulated structural transitions in silk proteins by near-field IR ...
Electron-regulated nanoscale polymorphic transitions in silk proteins revealed by near-field infrared imaging and nano-spectroscopy at resolutions approaching the molecular level has been reported. The ability to locally probe nanoscale protein structural transitions combined with nanometre-preci...[ Learn more ]