Back to results
US 8,911,761 B2Granted
Composite materials
AssigneeOxford Biomaterials Ltd.
InventorDavid Philip Knight
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
This application discloses a composite material comprising one or more silk elements in an acrylic or cross-linked protein matrix. The silk elements are made from the group of silk elements consisting of domestic silkworm silk, wild silkworm silk, spider dragline silk, and filaments spun from recombinant silk protein or protein analogs. The composite material is particularly useful for use in-surgical-implants.
Claims20
A surgically implantable device comprising a biocompatible composite material, wherein;
- said biocompatible composite material comprises one or more silk elements,
- said silk elements comprise at least one silk protein selected from the group of proteins consisting of wild silkworm silk proteins, recombinant wild silkworm silk proteins, and analogues thereof,
- the protein sequence of said at least one silk protein comprises at least eight repeats of the triplet RGD, and
- said one or more silk elements are embedded in a cross-linked fibroin or cross-linked casein protein matrix.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.