Bioselectivity of silk protein-based materials and their bio-inspired applications

• Hendrik Bargel,
• Vanessa T. Trossmann,
• Christoph Sommer and
• Thomas Scheibel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 902–921, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.81

A review on the biological effects of nanomaterials on silkworm (Bombyx mori)

• Sandra Senyo Fometu,
• Guohua Wu,
• Lin Ma and
• Joan Shine Davids

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 190–202, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.15

• summarizes some reports on the biological effects of nanomaterials on silkworm and how the application of nanomaterials improves sericulture. Keywords: biological effects; Bombyx mori; nanomaterials; nanotechnology; sericulture; Introduction Nanomaterials have unique optical, electronic, and photocatalytic

• studying cellular toxicity, response to new drugs [78] and environmental pollution. Silkworm (Bombyx mori) is an invertebrate insect widely used as a model organism in life sciences [79] since it has diverse mutant strains, a complete genome sequenced, and a protein database available [80][81]. There are

• function of cytokines in the immune response of insects using the Bombyx mori silkworm as a model. It was shown that the activation of a paralytic peptide resulted in cellular and humoral immune responses, which contribute to the host defense in the silkworm Bombyx mori [96]. It was also reported that β

Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk

• Meguya Ryu,
• Reo Honda,
• Adrian Cernescu,
• Arturas Vailionis,
• Armandas Balčytis,
• Jitraporn Vongsvivut,
• Jing-Liang Li,
• Denver P. Linklater,
• Elena P. Ivanova,
• Vygantas Mizeikis,
• Mark J. Tobin,
• Junko Morikawa and
• Saulius Juodkazis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 922–929, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.93

• -resolution technique is essential in order to gain a better understanding of the fibril structure of silk [8]. Experimental Silk slices White Bombyx mori cocoons were purchased from the silk rearing house in Jiangsu, China, and brown Antheraea pernyi silkworm cocoons were collected from Liaoning Province

• , China. The white and brown silk fibers used in this work are fibroin fibers obtained by degumming Bombyx mori and Antheraea pernyi silk fibres, respectively. To degum the fibres, the cocoons were boiled three times in an aqueous 0.5% (w/v) Na2CO3 solution to remove the sericin coating. The degummed silk

• on IR-transparent non-birefringent CaF2 substrates. X-ray characterization 3D X-ray computed microtomography (micro-CT) of white Bombyx mori silk fibers was performed using a ZEISS Versa 520 X-ray Microscope at the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities, Stanford University. The scan settings were as

Bombyx mori silk/titania/gold hybrid materials for photocatalytic water splitting: combining renewable raw materials with clean fuels

• Stefanie Krüger,
• Michael Schwarze,
• Otto Baumann,
• Christina Günter,
• Michael Bruns,
• Christian Kübel,
• Dorothée Vinga Szabó,
• Rafael Meinusch,
• Verónica de Zea Bermudez and
• Andreas Taubert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 187–204, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.21

• Giessen, Germany Department of Chemistry and CQ-VR, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pt-5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal 10.3762/bjnano.9.21 Abstract The synthesis, structure, and photocatalytic water splitting performance of two new titania (TiO2)/gold(Au)/Bombyx mori silk hybrid materials are

• easily be recycled and show great potential for application in lightweight devices for green fuel production. Keywords: Bombyx mori silk; gold; photocatalytic water splitting; titania; Introduction Fossil fuel availability is one of the pressing issues today. Especially in light of a growing world

• is chemically and mechanically rather robust [49]. As a result, the method reported here is a promising approach towards new photocatalytically active materials based on a renewable scaffold. Experimental Chemicals Bombyx mori silk cocoons (http://www.seidentraum.biz, date of access: 14.01.2017