Protein-Ionic liquid interactions: A window into future sustainable processing of proteinacious biopolymer waste and generation of novel com

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Processing of complex biopolymers, particularly proteins such as keratin and silk, has been hindered by the extremely low solubility and thus accessibility to the protein backbone of these materials. Recent work shows that room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs – liquids composed of organic-based ions) are able to overcome these issues, rendering them accessible to further processing. This opens up a wide possible range of applications for turning these materials into novel structures and composites. This proposal seeks to understand the basis of protein-ionic liquid interactions such as to make more informed decisions of which of the millions of available RTILs to use, ensuring that sustainable and environmentally compatible selections can be rationally prioritised in the future.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79108334
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79108334
Provenance
Creator Dr Tristan Youngs; Dr Anna Croft; Professor Peter Licence; Mrs Shafaq Muzammal
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-05-16T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-05-20T08:00:00Z