ArticleACS sustainable chemistry & engineering2022
Water-Processable, Stretchable, and Ion-Conducting Coacervate Fibers from Keratin Associations with Polyelectrolytes.
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- Coacervates as bio-inspired intermediates for materials processing.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Chain entanglement enhanced strong and tough wool keratin/albumin fibers for bioabsorbable and immunocompatible surgical sutures.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Structure-Property Relationships of Granular Hybrid Hydrogels Formed through Polyelectrolyte Complexation.Macromolecules · 2024Article
- Effect of Dynamically Arrested Domains on the Phase Behavior, Linear Viscoelasticity and Microstructure of Hyaluronic Acid - Chitosan Complex Coacervates.Macromolecules · 2023Article
- Bioinspired Processing of Keratin into Upcycled Fibers through pH-Induced Coacervation.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2023Article
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Abstract
Keratin is one of the most abundant biopolymers, produced on a scale of millions of tons per year but often simply discarded as waste. Due to its abundance, biocompatibility, and excellent mechanical properties, there is an extremely high interest in developing protocols for the recycling of keratin and its conversion into protein-based materials. In this work, we describe a novel protocol for the conversion of keratin from wool into hybrid fibers. Our protocol uses a synthetic polyanion, which undergoes complex coacervation with keratin, leading to a viscous liquid phase that can be used directly as a dope for dry-spinning. The use of polyelectrolyte complexation allows us to use all of the extracted keratin, unlike previous works that were limited to the fraction with the highest molecular weight. The fibers prepared by this protocol show excellent mechanical properties, humidity responsiveness, and ion conductivity, which makes them promising candidates for applications as a strain sensor.
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