The mussel byssus is a biorenewable, protein-based material produced by marine mussels, which has attracted the interest of material scientists because of its remarkable mechanical and self-healing properties. Large quantities of byssus waste material from mussel mariculture are produced every year, which have great potential as a raw starting material for producing sustainable advanced materials. In this work, we developed a facile and scalable method to synthesize whole byssus-based porous matrices that retain part of the hierarchical organization of the pristine material at the nanoscale. The resulting material is biocompatible and maintains important native byssus features: metal ion chelation (≥12 mg/g), collagen domains, and hierarchical organization, with tunable properties controlled via metal ion content. Furthermore, these biocompatible matrices showed a dye absorbing efficiency (up to 64 mg/g for anionic dyes) that was similar to or higher than that of the pristine byssus, a proof of preservation of structural motifs. These findings indicate that biorenewable matrices originating from byssus waste could have potential use in biomedical engineering and applied material science.

Devis Montroni, F.V. (2018). Functional Biocompatible Matrices from Mussel Byssus Waste. ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, 4(1), 57-65 [10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00743].

Functional Biocompatible Matrices from Mussel Byssus Waste

Devis Montroni;Francesco Valle;Stefania Rapino;Simona Fermani;Matteo Calvaresi;Giuseppe Falini
2018

Abstract

The mussel byssus is a biorenewable, protein-based material produced by marine mussels, which has attracted the interest of material scientists because of its remarkable mechanical and self-healing properties. Large quantities of byssus waste material from mussel mariculture are produced every year, which have great potential as a raw starting material for producing sustainable advanced materials. In this work, we developed a facile and scalable method to synthesize whole byssus-based porous matrices that retain part of the hierarchical organization of the pristine material at the nanoscale. The resulting material is biocompatible and maintains important native byssus features: metal ion chelation (≥12 mg/g), collagen domains, and hierarchical organization, with tunable properties controlled via metal ion content. Furthermore, these biocompatible matrices showed a dye absorbing efficiency (up to 64 mg/g for anionic dyes) that was similar to or higher than that of the pristine byssus, a proof of preservation of structural motifs. These findings indicate that biorenewable matrices originating from byssus waste could have potential use in biomedical engineering and applied material science.
2018
Devis Montroni, F.V. (2018). Functional Biocompatible Matrices from Mussel Byssus Waste. ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, 4(1), 57-65 [10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00743].
Devis Montroni, Francesco Valle, Stefania Rapino, Simona Fermani, Matteo Calvaresi, Matthew J. Harrington, Giuseppe Falini
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