Volume 131, Issue 40 pp. 14290-14294
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Bioinspired Unidirectional Silk Fibroin–Silver Compound Nanowire Composite Scaffold via Interface-Mediated In Situ Synthesis

Dr. Jingzhe Xue

Dr. Jingzhe Xue

College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060 P. R. China

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 China

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction and Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009 P. R. China

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Dr. Huai-Ling Gao

Dr. Huai-Ling Gao

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 China

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Xiang-Ying Wang

Xiang-Ying Wang

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction and Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009 P. R. China

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Kun-Yu Qian

Kun-Yu Qian

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction and Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009 P. R. China

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Dr. Yuan Yang

Dr. Yuan Yang

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 China

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Prof. Tao He

Prof. Tao He

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction and Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009 P. R. China

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Prof. Chuanxin He

Corresponding Author

Prof. Chuanxin He

College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060 P. R. China

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Prof. Yang Lu

Corresponding Author

Prof. Yang Lu

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction and Material Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009 P. R. China

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Prof. Shu-Hong Yu

Corresponding Author

Prof. Shu-Hong Yu

Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 China

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First published: 29 July 2019
Citations: 7

Abstract

Bioinspired unidirectional porous materials have emerged as a unique class of scaffolds for the fabrication of macroscopic nanomaterial assemblies. However, these scaffolds usually serve simply as mechanical carriers to support various building blocks. Here, we report that the unidirectional silk fibroin scaffold can not only act as a carrier, but also serve as a controllable multiscale reactor to achieve the in situ synthesis of a Ag3PO4 nanowire network anchored to ordered channels. Both the silk fibroin matrix and the interface play important roles in the nucleation and growth of the Ag3PO4 nanowires. This unidirectional composite scaffold can be used for efficient water disinfection. Furthermore, the facile chemical transformation of Ag3PO4 in the composite scaffold into Ag2S provided an analogous unidirectional composite silk scaffold that displays both efficient solar water evaporation effect and antibacterial activity. It is expected that this method can be extended to fabricate a series of silk-based unidirectional composite scaffolds with varying functionalities.

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