以晶体生长原理重塑蚕丝柔性材料世界的未来

人工晶体学报 ›› 2021, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (4): 629-647.

以晶体生长原理重塑蚕丝柔性材料世界的未来

邱武^1,2, 刘向阳¹

1.厦门大学海洋与地球学院,近海海洋环境科学国家重点实验室,厦门 361005;
2.新加坡国立大学物理系,新加坡 117551

收稿日期:2021-03-05 出版日期:2021-04-15 发布日期:2021-05-21
通讯作者: 刘向阳,博士,教授。E-mail:liuxy@xmu.edu.cn
作者简介:刘向阳,教授,国家特聘教授,教育部长江学者,博士生导师,厦门大学生物仿生及软物质研究院院长。发表SCI论文400多篇,其中顶级杂志>90篇(Nature 3篇),出版英文专著6部。主要研究领域为晶体生长、仿生材料、柔性材料及相关功能化、柔性电子、柔性传感器件和能源器件,表面以及胶体科学。在国际国内学术会议及研讨会上作大会报告及邀请报告150余次,主办国际会议30余场。担任亚洲晶体生长和晶体技术协会第五届主席,国际晶体生长协会理事,Advanced Functional Materials(Wiley, 2016)、Small(Wiley, 2015)、Small Methods(Wiley, 2020—2021)、《物理学报》(编辑,2016—)等杂志专刊客座主编。邱武(1988—),男,湖南省人,博士。E-mail:phyqiuw@nus.edu.sg
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金(12074322);厦门市科技计划(3502Z20183012)

Applying Crystallization Theory to Reshape Future of Cocoon Silk Soft Materials

QIU Wu^1,2, LIU Xiangyang¹

1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
2. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117551, Singapore

Received:2021-03-05 Online:2021-04-15 Published:2021-05-21

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 本文通过先进的结构表征手段,证实了包括丝蛋白材料在内的多种柔性材料内存在典型的介观多级结构和晶体网络结构。由于柔性材料中介观结构特别是晶体网络结构对于其宏观性能的有决定性影响,全面深入了解内部晶体的生长动力学和晶体网络结构的介观重构尤为重要。根据丝蛋白分子折叠成丝蛋白材料的最新研究成果,将晶体研究的方法,包括结晶动力学,应用到柔性材料的研究之中后,确定丝蛋白材料的形成过程遵循典型的“成核-结晶”机理。不仅如此,通过定向设计和控制晶体网络的形成及关键结构参数,如晶体密度、取向度、掺杂分子成核引发剂等,还可以实现柔性材料的介观重构与介观功能化,为发展全新的柔性介观光、电子学提供了可能。

关键词: 晶体生长, 柔性材料, 结晶动力学, 晶体网络, 介观结构, 介观功能化

Abstract: Attributed to advanced structrual characterization techniques, mesoscopic hierarchical structures as well as crystal network structures are revealed in different varieties of soft materials including silk fibroin materials. Noting the close correlation between mesoscopic structures (especially the crystal network structures) and macroscopic performance of silk fibroin materials, comprehensive investigations on the formation of crystallites and crystal network are utmost important. Based on latest research studying on how silk fibroin molecules refold into higher levels of structures within silk fibroin materials, it is determined that the crystallization theory can well predict the formation process of silk fibroin materials and the corresponding kinetics. Nevertheless, the rational design and mesoscopic reconstruction of silk fibroin materials can be implemented by controlling the molecular crystallization, such as crystal density, orientation degree, doped molecular nucleation intiator and so on, which endows noval functions to silk fibroin materials and other soft materials.

Key words: crystallization: soft material, crystallization kinetics, crystal network, mesoscopic structure, mesoscopic functionalization

中图分类号:

O734

邱武, 刘向阳. 以晶体生长原理重塑蚕丝柔性材料世界的未来[J]. 人工晶体学报, 2021, 50(4): 629-647.

QIU Wu, LIU Xiangyang. Applying Crystallization Theory to Reshape Future of Cocoon Silk Soft Materials[J]. JOURNAL OF SYNTHETIC CRYSTALS, 2021, 50(4): 629-647.

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