Regenerated silk fiber wet spinning from an ionic liquid solution
- 2 September 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 15 (39) , 4206-4208
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b510069k
Abstract
Regenerated silk fibroin from Bombyx mori silkworms was extruded into fibers from a 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid solvent system; the drawn fibers rinsed in methanol exhibit alignment of the β-sheet crystallites along the fiber axis.Keywords
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