An Attempt to Prepare Flexible–Strong Conductive Fiber with Bagworm Silk

Kyoka Komaba; Noriko Hayashi; Eiji Tokgawa; Hiromasa Goto

Kyoka Komaba
Noriko Hayashi
Eiji Tokgawa
Hiromasa Goto

Keywords: Bagworm silk, biomaterial, composite, conductive polymer, fiber

Abstract

Bagworm silk is the strongest biofiber to date. In this research, we prepared bagworm silk/polypyrrole
composite by oxidative polymerization as an attempt for preparation of flexible–strong textiles. Characters of
the composite thus synthesized in this study were evaluated with infrared absorption (IR) spectroscopy, scanning
electron microscopy (SEM), electron spin resonance (ESR) and conductivity measurement.