Developing a novel suturing material using human hair proteins

• Main Author: Gan, Le Min
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44779
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A human hair protein, keratin hybrid fiber was produced by the process of polyelectrolyte complexation using chitosan and alginate as the base components. Despite similarity of hybrid fibers experimented (i.e. keratin-chitosan-gellan fiber types); none have tested the combination of keratin-chitosan...