waterways

Nanotechnology

Discarded silk can clean up polluted waterways – researchers develop hollow spherical silk particles to test adsorption

Conventional silk fabric: (A) Plain weave dyed fabric, PW-D. (B) Noil woven dyed fabric, NW-D. (C) Dyed single jersey knit fabric, JK-D. (D) Dyed satin (charmeuse) fabric, CW-D. (E) Dyed shantung (Duponi) fabric, SW-D. (F) SEM image of the electrospun fiber mat. (G) FTIR spectrum showing amide bands I, II, and III of silk dope or silk fibroin solution, SFS.…