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Structure and solubility of natural silk fibroin

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The solubility of silk fibroin in aqueous-salt, aqueous-organic, and organic media is analyzed. Factors affecting the formation of the secondary structural organization of fibroin in solutions and in the solid state after the recovery from solutions are analyzed.

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    E. S. Sashina, A. M. Bochek, N. P. Novoselov & D. A. Kirichenko

  2. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. S. Sashina, A. M. Bochek, N. P. Novoselov & D. A. Kirichenko

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Original Russian Text © E.S. Sashina, A.M. Bochek, N.P. Novoselov, D.A. Kirichenko, 2006, published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, 2006, Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 881–888.

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Sashina, E.S., Bochek, A.M., Novoselov, N.P. et al. Structure and solubility of natural silk fibroin. Russ J Appl Chem 79, 869–876 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070427206060012

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