Figure 1.
pH storage stability of SAEW.
Table 1.
The alkaline ions and content in various water (mg/L).
Figure 2.
Effects of pH (a), degumming time (b), volume (c), methods and different strains of silkworm cocoon (d) on the degumming rate of silkworm cocoon.
NC: white normal cocoon from the silkworm QingSong×HaoYue, (DZC): a yellow-green colored cocoon of the Daizo silkworm, MC and FC: both male and female cocoons are yellow and purple fluorescent under 365 nm UV light, respectively.
Figure 3.
Surface images of single filament of silk fibroin degummed from different degumming methods.
Degumming methods: Neutral soap (Left), pH11.50 SAEW (Middle), Sodium carbonate (Right).
Figure 4.
Effects of degumming methods on the thermal property of silk fibroin fiber.
Table 2.
Tensile properties of single filament of silk fibroin.
Table 3.
Statistical analysis of effects of degumming methods on tensile properties of single filament of silk fibroin by ANOVA.
Figure 5.
Structure diagram of SAEW electrolyzer.
Figure 6.
Reeling and sampling method for the measurement of single filament of fibroin.