Tufts College

Simatech Incorporation

Zhaozhu Zheng

David L Kaplan

Jian Liu

Xiaoqin Wang

Cheng Qian

Shaozhe Guo

Jianbing Wu

Fuxin Shi

The invention discloses a freeze-dried powder of high molecular weight silk fibroin, preparation process and use thereof. The freeze-dried powder is obtained from silk by degumming, dissolution, dialysis, centrifugation, high temperature and high pressure treatment and freeze-drying. A method of preparing silk fibroin microspheres with polyethylene glycol comprises mixing a silk fibroin solution of 1-30 wt % with a PEG solution of 10-60 w % and incubating the resulting solution. A controlled-release or sustained-release silk fibroin gel formulation includes a gel-state carrier and a drug dispersed/adsorbed therein, the carrier is a silk fibroin gel formed by blending with LMW-PEG. The freeze-dried powder will not change the native molecular weight and random coil structure of silk fibroin, and can be rapidly dissolved into a solution, and can be stored and transported for a long time, and this reduces waste of silk fibroin materials and promotes R & D and biomedical applications of silk fibroin biomaterials.

Freeze-dried powder of high molecular weight silk fibroin, preparation method therefor and use thereof

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Jiangsu, China

Zhaozhu Zheng