Peeling and Mesoscale Dissociation of Silk Fibers for Hybridization of Electrothermic Fibrous Composites

Natural silk cocoons have fibrillary structure at several levels of length scales, which offered mechanical properties superior to many artificial silk materials. Despite the fact that many solvents had been endeavored to extract natural nanofibrils for the construction of functional materials, silk microfibrils have not been produced in scale thus far. Most reported solvents tended to exfoliate silk fibers directly into nanofibrils, due to...