Biotechnology of Silk [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Tetsuo Asakura, Thomas Miller
• ISBN-13: 978-9400771192
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 592 Invertebrates
• Thông tin xuất bản: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Mô tả vật lý: X, 272 p. 88 illus., 50 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 292699
• Chủ đề: 1. Biomaterials; 2. Biotechnology; 3. Building materials; 4. Invertebrates; 5. Polymers

Tóm tắt

This book is a snapshot of the current state of the art of research and development on the properties and characteristics of silk and their use in medicine and industry. The field encompasses backyard silk production from ancient time to industrial methods in the modern era and includes an example of efforts to maintain silk production on Madagascar. Once revered as worth its weight in gold, silk has captured the imagination from its mythical origins onwards. The latest methods in molecular biology have opened new descriptions of the underlying properties of silk. Advances in technological innovation have created silk production by microbes as the latest breakthrough in the saga of silk research and development. The application of silk to biomaterials is now very active on the basis of excellent properties of silks including recombinant silks for biomaterials and the accumulated structural information.