@conference {42970,
	title = {Mechanistic understanding of rapid gelation of silk fibroin using a biosurfactant {\textendash} sophorolipid},
	booktitle = {National Science Day, At CSIR-NCL},
	year = {2015},
	month = {FEB},
	address = {National Chemical Laboratory, Pune  India},
	abstract = {<p>3D polymeric hydrogels find use in biomedical applications as scaffolds and drug delivery vehicle {\textbullet} Silk fibroin a structural protein is a promising candidate (excellent thermo-mechanicals, biocompatibility, biodegradability) {\textbullet} Sophorolipid (SL)-a biosurfactant is known to exhibit antimicrobial, anti cancerous and cell differentiating. {\textbullet} Use of SL as gelling agent can enhance the applicability of SF hydrogels {\textbullet} SF-SL scaffolds obtained by lyophilization of hydrogels can find application in tissue regeneration</p>},
	author = {Dubey, Parul and Nawale, Laxman and Sarkar, Dhiman and Nisal, Anuya and Prabhune, Asmita}
}
