Team:UCLA/Notebook/Materials
Materials Processing Notebook
Goals
- Wet-Spin fibers from mixtures of silkworm silk and recombinant functionalized spider silk
- Wet-Spin fibers from recombinant honeybee silk
- Construct a post-spin stretch apparatus
- Characterize all spun fibers
- Elastic modulus
- Yield stress
- Beta-sheet content (FTIR)
- Create hydrogels from mixtures of silkworm silk and recombinant functionalized spider silk
- Create hydrogels from recombinant honeybee silk
- Characterize hydrogels
- Rheological assays
- Beta-sheet content (FTIR, CD)
Achievements
- May 13: completed our practice spins on cellulose acetate!
- May 28: we reconstituted silk solution into fibers!
What to accomplish next
- Construct a machine to draw and wind the silk fibers as they are being formed
- Co-spin silk with the Tamura sequence
Protocols
- [Team:UCLA/Notebook/Materials/degumming | Silk Degumming]
- [Team:UCLA/Notebook/Materials/solubilization | Silk Solubilization]
- Wet Spinning
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