仿丝素纤维的研究进展

简要回顾了外观和形态仿蚕丝发展技术,重点分析了结构仿蚕丝丝素的国内外研究现状,探讨了结构与功能仿丝素纤维的途径、方法和存在的困难,包括丝素再生、聚氨基酸合成、聚氨基酸与非肽片段共聚物合成、基因工程法仿丝素蛋白质的合成及其纤维化等.基于天然大分子蚕丝丝素与合成高聚物聚氨酯同时具有类似的酰胺链结构和微相分离的聚集态结构,提出了以含有丝素特征寡肽片段的特殊聚氨酯仿丝素纤维的可行性构想,以期有助于蚕丝合纤化.     

Microspectroscopic soft X-ray analysis of keratin based biofibers

Scanning soft X-ray transmission microspectroscopy (STXM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have been employed for a high-resolution morphological and chemical analysis of hair fibers from human, sheep and alpaca. STXM allows optimum contrast imaging of the main hair building blocks due to tuneable photon energy. Chemical similarities and deviations for the human hair building blocks as well as for the three investigated species are discussed on the basis of the local near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS). The spectra of melanosomes corroborate the state-of-the-art model for the chemical structure of eumelanin. Complementary TEM micrographs reveal the occurrence of cortex sectioning in alpaca hair to some extent. A spectroscopic analysis for human hair cortex indicates low mass loss upon soft X-ray irradiation, but transformation of chemical species with decreasing amount of peptide bonds and increasing NEXAFS signal for unsaturated carbon–carbon bonds.