Towards the fabrication of biohybrid silk fibroin materials: entrapment and preservation of chloroplast organelles in silk fibroin films
Abstract
Chloroplasts extracted from spinach leaves were entrapped in B. mori silk fibroin films to investigate the maintenance of their photosynthetic activity in a dry environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1039/c6ra13228f
Entities
People
- Alexander N. Mitropoulos
- Benedetto Marelli
- David L. Kaplan
- Fiorenzo G Omenetto
- Giovanni Perotto
- Jason J Amsden
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Tufts University
- United States Army