Studies on physical properties and structure of silk. Glass transition and crystallization of silk fibroin
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Polymer Science
- Vol. 19 (4) , 1013-1015
- https://doi.org/10.1002/app.1975.070190410
Abstract
Amorphous silk fibroin with random coil conformation shows endothermic and exothermic peaks and endothermic shift on the DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) curve. The endothermic shift observed at 175°C was due to the glass transition. The exothermic peak at 212°C is recognized to be the crystallization, which later was confirmed by x‐ray diffraction pattern. The endothermic peak at 280°C is shown to be the degradation.Keywords
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