Insect cuticle-inspired design of sustainably sourced composite bioplastics with enhanced strength, toughness and stretch-strengthening behavior

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Wu, Nan

作者： Wu, Nan;Lin, Qiaoxia;Shao, Fei;Zhang, Haoyue;Chen, Kaiwen;Wang, Huanan;Yang, Qing;Chen, Lei;Wang, Guirong;Yang, Qing;Chen, Lei;Wang, Guirong;Yang, Qing;Wu, Jinrong

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关键词： Biomass -based composites; Insect cuticle protein; Chitosan; Supramolecular interactions; Biomedical application potentials; Self -healing

期刊名称：CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS （ 影响因子：11.2； 五年影响因子：10.2 ）

ISSN： 0144-8617

年卷期： 2024 年 333 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Insect cuticles that are mainly made of chitin, chitosan and proteins provide insects with rigid, stretchable and robust skins to defend harsh external environment. The insect cuticle therefore provides inspiration for engineering biomaterials with outstanding mechanical properties but also sustainability and biocompatibility. We herein propose a design of high-performance and sustainable bioplastics via introducing CPAP3-A1, a major structural protein in insect cuticles, to specifically bind to chitosan. Simply mixing 10w/w% bioengineered CPAP3-A1 protein with chitosan enables the formation of plastics-like, sustainably sourced chitosan/CPAP3-A1 composites with significantly enhanced strength (-90 MPa) and toughness (-20 MJ m -3), outperforming previous chitosan-based composites and most synthetic petroleum-based plastics. Remarkably, these bioplastics exhibit a stretch-strengthening behavior similar to the training living muscles. Mechanistic investigation reveals that the introduction of CPAP3-A1 induce chitosan chains to assemble into a more coarsened fibrous network with increased crystallinity and reinforcement effect, but also enable energy dissipation via reversible chitosanprotein interactions. Further uniaxial stretch facilitates network re-orientation and increases chitosan crystallinity and mechanical anisotropy, thereby resulting in stretch-strengthening behavior. In general, this study provides an insect-cuticle inspired design of high-performance bioplastics that may serve as sustainable and biofriendly materials for a wide range of engineering and biomedical application potentials.

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