Ep 14 - Flexible Futures: Reinventing Silk for Bio and Tech

05/08/2025 16 min

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How did silk go from ancient thread to a material with applications in neural interfaces and photonic devices? We explore the molecular tricks—crosslinking, plasticization, and more—that are opening new frontiers for silk fibroin in science and technology.Feature paper :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2023.03.027

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