📣 Help Shape the Future of UKRI's Gateway to Research (GtR)

We're improving UKRI's Gateway to Research and are seeking your input! If you would be interested in being interviewed about the improvements we're making and to have your say about how we can make GtR more user-friendly, impactful, and effective for the Research and Innovation community, please email gateway@ukri.org.

Initiation of a novel scalable and sustainable silk biopolymer processing method

Lead Participant: OXFORD BIOMATERIALS LIMITED

Abstract

Low-energy, high-quality wet processing of sustainable polymeric materials is a key societal and economic challenge facing today’s polymer industry. Our answer is to exploit a source of natural polymer feedstocks, silk, to provide a sustainable solution to the production of engineering plastics.

Lead Participant

Project Cost

Grant Offer

OXFORD BIOMATERIALS LIMITED £33,300 £ 23,310

People

ORCID iD

Publications

10 25 50