期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 22, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22084136
关键词
silk fibroin; porous material; crystalline structure; stability
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51973144]
- College Nature Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province, China [20KJA540002]
- PAPD
- Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province [SWYY-038]
- Rowan University Seed Research Grants
- US Natural Science Foundation [DMR-1809541, CMMI-2037097]
This study investigated the effect of immersion treatments on the crystalline structure of silk fibroin materials, showing that uncrystallized silk material can be transformed into Silk II crystal structure through immersion treatments, while the Silk I crystalline structure demonstrates good long-term stability and endurance to alcohol sterilization. This stable crystalline structure of Silk I materials has potential applications in biomedical materials, sustainable materials, and biosensors.
The crystalline structure of silk fibroin Silk I is generally considered to be a metastable structure; however, there is no definite conclusion under what circumstances this crystalline structure is stable or the crystal form will change. In this study, silk fibroin solution was prepared from B. Mori silkworm cocoons, and a combined method of freeze-crystallization and freeze-drying at different temperatures was used to obtain stable Silk I crystalline material and uncrystallized silk material, respectively. Different concentrations of methanol and ethanol were used to soak the two materials with different time periods to investigate the effect of immersion treatments on the crystalline structure of silk fibroin materials. X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman scattering spectroscopy (Raman), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were used to characterize the structure of silk fibroin before and after the treatments. The results showed that, after immersion treatments, uncrystallized silk fibroin material with random coil structure was transformed into Silk II crystal structure, while the silk material with dominated Silk I crystal structure showed good long-term stability without obvious transition to Silk II crystal structure. alpha-chymotrypsin biodegradation study showed that the crystalline structure of silk fibroin Silk I materials is enzymatically degradable with a much lower rate compared to uncrystallized silk materials. The crystalline structure of Silk I materials demonstrate a good long-term stability, endurance to alcohol sterilization without structural changes, and can be applied to many emerging fields, such as biomedical materials, sustainable materials, and biosensors.
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