• Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.10-17
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• 2003

This study was carried out to analyze physicochemical characteristics of sericin cocoon from silkworm, Bombyx mori. The degumming loss increased with increasing treatment time up to 2 hr, and temperature up to 130$^{\circ}C$. At 130$^{\circ}C$, degumming loss of Nd-s jam and Nd$\^$H/ jam were 100% while that of Baegok jam was 24%. Nd-s jam and Baegok jam ha high glycine content of 29.1∼46.3 mol% where as Nd$\^$H/ jam had high serine content of 32.6 mol%. Thermal denaturation temperatures were found at 218$^{\circ}C$ for Nd-s jam, 216$^{\circ}C$ for Nd$\^$H/ jam, and 218$^{\circ}C$ for Baegok jam. Before degumming, crystallinities obtained by FT-IR analysis were 44.3, 43.7, and 59.9% for Nd-s jam, Nd$\^$H/ jam, and Baegok jam respectively. After degumming, crystallinity increased to 61.8% for Baegok jam. Before degumming, crystallinitics obtained from XRD were 35.9, 33.5, and 47.2%, for Nd-s jam, Nd$\^$H/ jam, and Baegok jam. After degumming, crystallinity increased to 49.8% for Baegok jam. The molecular weight of Nd$\^$H/ jam were 9,417 in 1 hr, 3,744 in 2 hr, 4,944 in hr, and 3,910 in 6 hr.