Rolandi Research Group

Pegah's paper on mechanical properties of chitin nanofiber networks is accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry B! Congratulations Pegah and thanks to our collaborators in the Cross group at Trinity College Dublin for the great contributions.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/tb/c3tb21550d #!divAbstract

Mechanical properties of self-assembled chitin nanofiber networks - Journal of Materials... Chitin nanofibers are structural components of the insect cuticle, the exoskeleton of crabs, and mollusk shells. Chitin nanofibers have found broad use in biomedical applications. Here, we study structure–properties–processing relationships of 3 nm chitin nanofiber networks self-assembled from a chi...

Our chitin-silk biocomposite in collaboration with the Omenetto team is featured on the cover (back) of Advanced Materials (32/2013): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201370201/abstract

Biomimetics: A Biomimetic Composite from Solution Self-Assembly of Chitin Nanofibers in a Silk... Jin, J., Hassanzadeh, P., Perotto, G., Sun, W., Brenckle, M. A., Kaplan, D., Omenetto, F. G. and Rolandi, M. (2013), Biomimetics: A Biomimetic Composite from Solution Self-Assembly of Chitin Nanofibers in a Silk Fibroin Matrix (Adv. Mater. 32/2013). Adv. Mater., 25: 4528. doi: 10.1002/adma.201370201