Combined chemical and physical encoding with silk fibroin-embedded nanostructures

Abrin L. Schmucker, Matthew B. Dickerson, Matthew Rycenga, Bryan F. Mangelson, Keith A. Brown, Rajesh R. Naik, Chad A. Mirkin*

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Abstract

Nanostructures spun into regenerated silk fibroin fibers encode physical and chemical information. These materials are composed of Raman enhancing nanoscale structures whose location in a linear array and chemical functionality endow them with a tunable identity or code. These structures remain functional after being electrospun into fibroin fibers and report a unique spectroscopic signature to prove the authenticity of a material through their code and by uniquely linking it to the composition of the host material.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1485-1489
Number of pages5
JournalSmall
Volume10
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 24 2014

Keywords

  • electrospinning
  • nanodisk codes
  • nanoencoding
  • surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  • tags

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Biotechnology
  • General Materials Science
  • Biomaterials

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