Preparation and Conductivity Testing of Chicken Feather Keratin/Fish Scale Gelatin Composite Hydrogel
Protein conductive hydrogels are a new kind of conductive materials which can be used in biomedical field because of their biocompat-ibility and bioactivity.In this paper,a series of FK/FG-G composite conductive hydrogels were prepared using waste chicken feathers as raw material by"one-pot method"to prepare chicken feather keratin extract and fish scale gelatin extracted by hot water method.The protein gel has excellent mechanical properties,certain conductivity and volume responsiveness,among which,the tensile strength of FK/FG-G-5 hy-drogel is 7.28 MPa,the elongation is 21.33%,and the elastic modulus is 8.98 MPa.The conductivity is 125.69 μS/mm,the conductivity in-creases by 16%after compression by 30%,and 184%after stretching by 30%,showing a significant volume response.
Feather KeratinKeratin HydrogelProtein Conducting HydrogelFlexible Conductive Material