Understanding the physical and chemical properties of keratin films

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chia, Sheryl CaiYing.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51494

Hair is seen as a waste material to be discarded after a haircut. However this waste material can be reused as a biomaterial for greater applications such as wound dressing applications or skin reconstruction. Hair is made up predominantly of keratin, which is a biopolymer that is biocompatible and...