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Spider silk: a novel optical fibre for biochemical sensing

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire, Kenny Hey Tow, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Whilst being thoroughly used in the textile industry and biomedical sector, silk has not yet been exploited for fibre optics-based sensing although silk fibres directly obtained from spiders can guide light and have shown early promises to being sensitive ...

SPIE2015

Shedding light on the optical properties of spider silk fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire, Kenny Hey Tow, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Optical characterisation of a Nephila edulis spider dragline silk is performed. The silk fiber transmits light up to 1400 nm with a propagation loss of ∼9 dB/cm and birefringence of 8×10−3 measured at 1302 nm. ...

IEEE2015

Silk Hydrogels as Soft Substrates for Neural Tissue Engineering

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Federico Tortelli, Amy Marie Hopkins

There is great need for soft biomaterials that match the stiffness of human tissues for tissue engineering and regeneration. Hydrogels are frequently employed for extracellular matrix functionalization and to provide appropriate mechanical cues. It is chal ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013

Plasticization of polylactide foams for tissue engineering

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Matthieu Cuénoud

Supercritical CO2 foaming of amorphous and semicrystalline polylactides plasticized by blending with 20 wt% polyethylene glycol has been investigated as a means of producing low-stiffness bioresorbable scaffolds for tissue engineering. For a given set of f ...

SAGE Publications2012

Structure-aware Synthesis for Predictive Woven Fabric Appearance

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Shuang Zhao

Woven fabrics have a wide range of appearance determined by their small-scale 3D structure. Accurately modeling this structural detail can produce highly realistic renderings of fabrics and is critical for predictive rendering of fabric appearance. But bui ...

ACM2012

Robotic laser tissue welding of sclera using chitosan films

Eric Tremblay, Pablo Garcia

Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of scleral wound closure using a novel adhesive made of chitosan film. Methods: Five-millimeter scleral lacerations were created in enucleated pig eyes. Casted chitosan films were sized to 7×7 mm patches. Lacerations ...

2009

The effect of lactose-conjugated silk biomaterials on the development of fibrogenic fibroblasts

Boris Hinz

Surface properties of implanted biomaterials can cause fibrotic tissue reactions by stimulating differentiation of host fibroblasts into contractile myofibroblasts. Silk fibroin (SF) protein has been used as biomaterial in pure and blended form. however, i ...

Elsevier2008

Resin transfer moulding of anionically polymerized polyamide 12

Véronique Michaud, Pierre-Etienne Bourban

Liquid composite moulding of Lactam 12 monomer and activating system (APLC12) into satin weave carbon fabrics is investigated, with emphasis on minimising the void content in the final part. The main sources for void formation are identified. The solidific ...

2005

Process-Induced Internal Stresses in Phenol-Formaldehyde Cellulose Composites

Phenol and melamine-formaldehyde (PF and MF) cellulose composites are being used extensively in the laminate industry. Despite their many advantages, flat panels produced from such materials have a tendency to warp immediately after processing as well as d ...

2004

Wearable Triboelectric Generator based on a hybrid mix of carbon nanotube and polymer layers

Jürgen Brugger

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a new-concept triboelectric generator (TEG) based on hybrid layers of carbon nanotube (CNT) and wearable polymer. The mix of layers has two functionalities; as triboelectric material and as electro ...

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