]. In the literature, there are several researches [4–6] on Bombyx mori (Fig. 1) to study the properties of these silk proteins for biomaterial purposes.
Silk fibres from Bombyx mori (B. mori) are generally 10–20 lm in thickness and each fibre is in fact duplet of two individual fibres. Each of these fibres has its own silk coating (sericin) and an inner core (fibroin). Fibroin is consist of parallel fibrils around 100–400 nm and has excellent mechanical properties which can be compared with some of the other fibres seen at the Table 1