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From: Endowing textiles with self-repairing ability through the fabrication of composites with a bacterial biofilm

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Fabrication of biofilm-textile composites. (a) A scheme of the three methods to integrate biofilm formed with curli fibers, amyloids assembled from CsgA (structure prepared by PyMOL and previously derived computationally40), into textiles. (b) Optical microscope images of the front and back sides of the biofilm-textile composites AS-2 g/mL, DB-1 mm, and VF. The scale bars are 1 cm. (c) SEM images of the front and back sides of the samples shown in (b), demonstrating the distribution and coating of biofilm on textile surfaces. The scale bars are 200 µm. (d) Bar plot of the integration density calculated for the composites prepared using the three methods. The bars represent mean values, and the error bars are standard deviations.

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