A facile fabrication strategy for patterning protein chain conformation in silk materials

Maneesh K. Gupta, Srikanth Singamaneni, Michael McConney, Lawrence F. Drummy, Rajesh R. Naik, Vladimir V. Tsukruk

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Abstract

Patterning of the secondary structure of silk films is achieved on the micrometer scale using a soft lithographic technique, as illustrated in the figure. The alternating areas of silk I and silk Il structure have different mechanical, surface, and solubility properties but nominally the same | chemical composition. This technique will enable the development of other tailored protein materials with selectively transformed localized secondary structure.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-119
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume22
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 5 2010

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