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Jun-Ting Wang1, Lu-Lu Li1, Lei Feng1
1State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fiber and Polymer, and Polymer Department of Donghua University, 2999N. Renmin Rd., Songjiang, 201620 Shanghai, PR China.
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
|November 26, 2013
Abstract:
By feeding the silkworms with the nano Fe3O4 powder together with mulberry leaves, we directly obtained silkworm spun pristine magnetic silk fiber, MSF. To compare with the normal SF found that this MSF not only has expected magnetic properties, but also has enhanced thermal stability and mechanical properties, e.g. stress and strain.
