Dr Rafael Moreno Tortolero
Degree, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8542 Decoding Silk Secretion for Scalable Biomaterials and Precision Polymers
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biochemistry and Biomedical SciencesDates
01/09/2026 to 31/08/2029
Decoding Silk Secretion for Scalable Biomaterials and Precision Polymers
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/09/2026 to 31/08/2029
Decoding Silk Secretion for Scalable Biomaterials and Precision Polymers
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/09/2026 to 31/08/2029
Publications
Recent publications
20/03/2024Biomimetic Silk Fibre Assembly: Mimicking Nature's Pultrusion Process
A 3D In-vitro model of the human dentine interface shows long-range osteoinduction from the dentine surface
International Journal of Oral Sciences
Manipulating the water–air interface to drive protein assembly for functional silk-like fibroin fibre production
Communications Materials
Molecular organization of fibroin heavy chain and mechanism of fibre formation in Bombyx mori
Communications Biology
Silk Road Revealed: Mechanism of silk fibre formation inBombyx mori
Silk Road Revealed
Thesis
Silk fibroin
Supervisors
Award date
27/09/2022
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