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Shengjie Ling1,2, Chunmei Li2, Kai Jin1
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|June 29, 2016
Abstract:
A method to directly extract silk nanofibrils from native silk fibers at the single nanofibrils scale is reported. The resulting silk nanofibrils, which retain structural features and physical properties of native silk fibers, show potential utility in optical and electronic devices.

