| Literature DB >> 11911898 |
Mingzhong Li1, Shenzhou Lu, Zhengyu Wu, Ke Tan, Norihiko Minoura, Shigenori Kuga.
Abstract
A series of porous silk fibroin-poly(vinyl alcohol) blend gels were prepared from corresponding aqueous mixtures by freeze- or air-drying, and their structure and mechanical properties were examined. The air-dried gels had higher crystallinity and much greater strengths than the freeze-dried gels, and therefore are suitable for mechanical uses. The freeze-dried gels had characteristic porous structure potentially useful as cell culture substrate. Its structure could be systematically varied by changing freezing temperature and freeze-thaw pretreatments before drying.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 11911898 DOI： 10.1016/s0141-8130(02)00007-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Biol Macromol ISSN： 0141-8130 Impact factor: 6.953