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SEMs of the freeze-dried silk hydrogels showing an improved morphological preservation provided by chemical crosslinking. The network structures, damaged during freeze drying in (a) the electrogelled silk, (c) the vortex-induced silk gel and (e) the spontaneously formed silk gel, were preserved in (b), (d) and (f), respectively, by adding glutaraldehyde crosslinks to the silk structure.
