Microstructural change of degummed Bombyx mori silk: An in situ stretching wide-angle X-ray-scattering study

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• 作者：Ku Liang^a ; Yu Gong^b ; Jianlong Fu^a ; Shi Yan^a ; Yuanyuan Tan^a ; Rong Du^b ; Xueqing Xing^b ; Guang Mo^b ; Zhongjun Chen^b ; Quan Cai^b ; Dongbai Sun^a ; Zhonghua Wu^b ; ^{wuzh@ihep.ac.cn}
• 关键词：61.05.cf ; 61.41.+e
• 刊名：International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：57
• 期：Complete
• 页码：99-104
• 全文大小：3388 K

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The microstructural change of degummed Bombyx mori silk was examined by in situ wide-angle X-ray-scattering (WAXS) with applied stretching force. WAXS patterns confirmed that the crystalline and amorphous regions coexist in the silk fibers. The crystallites with ¦Â-sheet structure have an orthorhombic unit cell with lattice parameters: a = 9.10 ?, b = 9.71 ? and c = 6.80 ?. The crystallite size, crystallite orientation and crystallinity were also estimated based on the WAXS patterns. The results demonstrate that the crystallite size is almost unchanged with the stretching strain. The crystallinity is approximately linearly increasing with the applied stretching force. However, the change of the unit-cell orientation degree with c-axis along the fiber axis behaves as a fast stage and an approximately unchanged stage during the in situ stretching process. All these experimental phenomena confirm that the microstructure of the degummed silk fibers can be well explained by the model of oriented ¦Â-sheet structure with a banded feature.