On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:44:28 AM UTC-8, Cathal Garvey wrote:
@Patrik:
Spider silk requires spinning to form polymers, whether by
electrospinning or spinneret, but glue proteins or chitin sound like
nice leads!
Actually, I think spinning is primarily required to form *fibers*. But if we're just creating a sheet of reinforced cellulose++ material, that may be irrelevant.
There's a wide variety of carbohydrate binding modules that have been characterized and/or patented to various degrees. I doubt anyone has ever used them to crosslink amorphous cellulose though, so that would be an entirely novel application ot covered by any preexisting patents.
The CAZy database contains 66 different carbohydrate binding module families, although not all of those are specific for cellulose:
http://www.cazy.org/Carbohydrate-Binding-Modules.html
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