(Nanowerk News) Silk fibers produced by Bombyx mori, the domestic silkworm, have been prized for millennia as a strong yet lightweight and luxurious material. Although synthetic polymers like nylon ...

Loopworm's silkworm-based feed ingredients are carbon negative, offering sustainable nutrition while removing more CO2 than ...

Along with its use in clothing, silk also shows promise for use in products ranging from surgical sutures to seed coverings. Scientists have recently devised a method of making the material stronger, ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have demonstrated that mechanically enhanced silk fibers could be naturally produced by feeding silkworms with diets containing ...

On the above, the rare earth solution was sprayed on mulberry, which was fed to silkworm to spun reinforced silk fibers. On the below, it illustrates the ion−dipole and cation−π interaction between ...

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Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) director Giridhar Parvatham has highlighted the potential of discarded silkworm pupae in serving as ‘high-nutritional-value’ livestock feed.