Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications
Silk has been widely used not only in the textile field but also in non-textile applications, which is composed of inner fibrous protein, named fibroin, and outer global protein, named sericin. Due to big differences, such as appearance, solubility, amino acid composition and amount of reactive grou...
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| description | Silk has been widely used not only in the textile field but also in non-textile applications, which is composed of inner fibrous protein, named fibroin, and outer global protein, named sericin. Due to big differences, such as appearance, solubility, amino acid composition and amount of reactive groups, silk fibroin and sericin usually need to be separated before further process. The residual sericin may influence the molecular weight, structure, morphology and properties of silk fibroin, so that degumming of silk is important and necessary, not only in textile field but also in non-textile applications. Traditional textile degumming processes, including soap, alkali or both, could bring such problems as environmental damage, heavy use of water and energy, and damage to silk fibroin. Therefore, this review aims to present a systematic work on environmentally friendly and green degumming processes of raw silk, including art of green degumming process, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, influence of degumming on molecular weight, structure, morphology and properties of silk. It is anticipated that rational selection and design of environmentally friendly and green degumming process is quite important and meaningful, not only for textile application but also for non-textile application. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61c10b8c892d408987040ef81b6001c82023-11-23T21:43:43ZengMDPI AGPolymers2073-43602022-02-0114465910.3390/polym14040659Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile ApplicationsLei Zhu0Junxiong Lin1Liujun Pei2Yuni Luo3Dali Li4Zhichao Huang5Engineering Research Centre for Eco-Dyeing and Finishing of Textiles, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaEngineering Research Centre for Eco-Dyeing and Finishing of Textiles, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaEngineering Research Center of Textile Chemistry and Clean Production, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, ChinaKey Lab of Science & Technology of Eco-Textile, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, ChinaDepartment of Bioengineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaKey Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, ChinaSilk has been widely used not only in the textile field but also in non-textile applications, which is composed of inner fibrous protein, named fibroin, and outer global protein, named sericin. Due to big differences, such as appearance, solubility, amino acid composition and amount of reactive groups, silk fibroin and sericin usually need to be separated before further process. The residual sericin may influence the molecular weight, structure, morphology and properties of silk fibroin, so that degumming of silk is important and necessary, not only in textile field but also in non-textile applications. Traditional textile degumming processes, including soap, alkali or both, could bring such problems as environmental damage, heavy use of water and energy, and damage to silk fibroin. Therefore, this review aims to present a systematic work on environmentally friendly and green degumming processes of raw silk, including art of green degumming process, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, influence of degumming on molecular weight, structure, morphology and properties of silk. It is anticipated that rational selection and design of environmentally friendly and green degumming process is quite important and meaningful, not only for textile application but also for non-textile application.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/4/659silk filamentsfibroinsericingreen degummingenzymeevaluation |
| spellingShingle | Lei Zhu Junxiong Lin Liujun Pei Yuni Luo Dali Li Zhichao Huang Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications Polymers silk filaments fibroin sericin green degumming enzyme evaluation |
| title | Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications |
| title_full | Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications |
| title_fullStr | Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications |
| title_short | Recent Advances in Environmentally Friendly and Green Degumming Processes of Silk for Textile and Non-Textile Applications |
| title_sort | recent advances in environmentally friendly and green degumming processes of silk for textile and non textile applications |
| topic | silk filaments fibroin sericin green degumming enzyme evaluation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/4/659 |
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