Balu, Rajkamal,2025-12-172025-12-172015https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/1119521 ethesis (xxii, 272 pages) :illustrations (some colour).Includes bibliographical references.Nature, through evolution over millions of years has perfected materials with amazing characteristics, reliable performance, and awe-inspiring functionalities. Such materials offer both inspiration and design principles for the development of novel bio-inspired multi-functional artificial materials. The biomimetic and bio-inspired research is a rapidly growing and extremely promising field, however, is at its infancy. One such remarkable biomaterial is native resilin, the most resilient elastomeric material known with a resilience of ~97% and a fatigue life in excess of 300 million cycles. It is an extracellular skeletal protein normally found in specialised regions of many insects where they have evolved to perform specific biological functions. It plays a major role in insect locomotion; including jumping, flying and sound production mechanisms. Native resilin is a member of the family of elastic proteins that includes elastin, abductin, collagen, gluten, spider silks, bysuss and titin. Over last four decades, design and synthesis of elastin-mimetic and elastin-like protein polymers using biosynthetic strategies has been the subject of extensive investigation, resulting in major scientific breakthroughs in modular protein synthesis.enBiopolymers.Elastomers.Resilin.thesis