화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.25, No.20, 1792-1796, 2004
Silk sericin retards the crystallization of silk fibroin
The thermal and structural analysis of silk fibroin (SF) and silk sericin (SS) blend films reveals that the crystallization of SF is retarded in the presence of SS. Although a phase separation was observed, there might be a strong interaction at the boundary of the SF and SS through intermolecular hydrogen bonding, which restricts the conformational transition of SF.