Full Factorial Design of Experiment dataset of Silk Fibroin alkaly degumming

Silk fibroin is the structural fiber of the silk filament and it is usually separated from the external fibroin by a chemical process called degumming. This process consists in an alkali bath in which the silk cocoons are boiled for a determined time. It is also known that the degumming process impacts the property of the outcoming silk fibroin fibers. In this work we present the dataset obtained from a Design of Experiment (DoE) screening made on the alkali degumming and wich results were publisced ACS biomaterials science and Engineering (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c01657). Four process factors were considered: the number of degumming baths, the process time, the process temperature and the salt concentration. The properties of the silk fibroin fibers were studied. In particular the molecular weight was obtained by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), the mechanical data by tensile test, the secondary structure by Fourier infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).