New way to make biomedical devices from silk yields better products with tunable qualities
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 12:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have developed a more efficient fabrication method for silk that allows them mold the material like plastic into solid forms for a wide range of applications, including medical devices. The properties of the end products can be "tuned", and modified with bioactive molecules, such as antibiotics and enzymes.