Sara Mattiello, Carlo Santulli*
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.13, No.1, pp. 1-19, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2024.056251
- 20 January 2025
Abstract Taking a widely contaminated yet abundant waste, such as poultry feathers, and extracting keratin from this structure appears to be a real challenge whenever the preservation of the secondary structure of the protein is desired. This process would allow exploiting it in ways (e.g., in the biomedical field) that are inspired by a structure that is primarily designed for flight, therefore capable specifically of withstanding flexure and lateral buckling, also with very low thicknesses. The preservation of the structure is based on disulfide crosslinks, and it is offered with preference by some chemical treatments, mainly… More >
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