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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2016
Applicant:
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Inventors:
Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Lexington, MA (US);
Matthew B. Applegate, Somerville, MA (US);
David L. Kaplan, Concord, MA (US);
Assignee:
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 27/52 (2006.01); A61L 27/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 27/52 (2013.01); A61L 27/48 (2013.01); A61L 2400/06 (2013.01); A61L 2430/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides transparent, elastic silk hydrogels for applications, including corneal reshaping to restore visual acuity and photolithography. The present disclosure also provides methods of photocrosslinking silk fibroin protein using riboflavin as a photoinitiator and exposing such riboflavin doped silk fibroin to light resulting in the formation of a transparent, elastic hydrogel.