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Asad Masood, Naeem Ahmed, Fatima Shahid, M. F. Mohd Razip Wee, Anuttam Patra and Kim S. Siow
Medical devices are often vulnerable to colonization by nosocomial pathogens (bacteria), leading to infections. Traditional sterilization methods may not always be effective, and as a result, alternative options are being explored to prevent microbial co...
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Manuela Elena Voicu, Daniela Ionita, George-Octavian Buica, Doina Draganescu, Valentina Anuta, Florentina Monica Raduly and Ioana Demetrescu
This paper compares two types of polylactic acid (PLA) coating on AZ31 alloy obtained by dip coating and electrospinning. Both types of coating were loaded with gentamicin sulphate (GS) and the drug-loading efficiency and release were assessed. A higher ...
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Elena Glazkova, Olga Bakina, Nikolay Rodkevich, Andrey Mosunov, Maxim Evstigneev, Vladislav Evstigneev, Viktor Klimenko and Marat Lerner
We have prepared a composite thin coating by incorporation of CuFe2O4/Cu2O/CuO nanoparticles in polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) matrix by using the solution casting method. The electrical explosion of two twisted wires (EETW) was used to obtain multicompo...
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Nicole Ciacotich, Lasse Kvich, Nicholas Sanford, Joseph Wolcott, Thomas Bjarnsholt and Lone Gram
Coating surfaces with a copper-silver alloy in clinical settings can be an alternative or complementary antibacterial strategy to other existing technologies and disinfection interventions. A newly developed copper-silver alloy coating has a high antibac...
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Elia Marin, Matteo Zanocco, Francesco Boschetto, Toshiro Yamamoto, Narisato Kanamura, Wenliang Zhu, Bryan J. McEntire, Bhajanjit Sonny Bal, Ryutaro Ashida, Osam Mazda and Giuseppe Pezzotti
The performance, durability, and bio-integration of functional biomedical coatings can be enhanced by changing or improving their substrate properties. In this study, we applied silicon nitride powder-based laser claddings to various substrates and under...
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Thomas Verdier, Alexandra Bertron, Benjamin Erable and Christine Roques
Use of photocatalytic paint-like coatings may be a way to protect building materials from microbial colonization. Numerous studies have shown the antimicrobial efficiency of TiO 2 photocatalysis on various microorganisms. However, few have focuse...
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Cristina Lavinia Nistor, Catalin Ionut Mihaescu, Daniela Bala, Ioana Catalina Gifu, Claudia Mihaela Ninciuleanu, Sabina Georgiana Burlacu, Cristian Petcu, Mariana-Gratiela Vladu, Adi Ghebaur, Lenuta Stroea and Ludmila Otilia Cinteza
A simple and cost-efficient method to modify different surfaces in order to improve their bioactivity, corrosion and wear resistance proved to be sol-gel coatings. The silane layers have been shown to be effective in the protection of steel, aluminum or ...
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Vladislava A. Pigareva, Valeria I. Marina, Anastasia V. Bolshakova, Anna K. Berkovich, Oksana A. Kuznetsova, Anastasia A. Semenova, Yulia K. Yushina, Dagmara S. Bataeva, Maria A. Grudistova and Andrey V. Sybachin
Positively charged polyelectrolytes hold significant potential as materials for creating antibacterial coatings. We examined the physicochemical and mechanical properties of the macromolecules in water solutions and in coatings for the series of branched...
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Tudor Bibire, Onur Yilmaz, Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc, Nela Bibire and Radu Danila
Biopolymers have gained significant attention as a class of polymer materials with a wide range of applications, especially in the medical and pharmaceutical field. Due to particular characteristics, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, non-toxici...
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Antonella Marra, Gennaro Rollo, Sossio Cimmino and Clara Silvestre
This paper compares the properties of iPP based composites and PLA based biocomposites using 5% of ZnO particles or ZnO particles coated with stearic acid as filler. In particular, the effect of coating on the UV stability, thermostability, mechanical, b...
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Matteo Zanocco, Elia Marin, Francesco Boschetto, Tetsuya Adachi, Toshiro Yamamoto, Narisato Kanamura, Wenliang Zhu, Bryan J. McEntire, B. Sonny Bal, Ryutaro Ashida, Osam Mazda and Giuseppe Pezzotti
Functional coatings are commonly applied to biomaterials in order to improve their properties. In this work, polyethylene was coated with a silicon nitride (Si3N4) powder using a pulsed laser source in a nitrogen gas atmosphere. Several analytical techni...
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Ran Li, Tony Z. Jin, Zengshe Liu and LinShu Liu
Fruit and vegetable containers with microbe-free surfaces can be made by coating with titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles or nonmetal (C, N, B, F) doped-TiO2 particles, using wear resistant polymers, such as zein, and paint, as the binders and to form a co...
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Dylan Shun Izuma, Norihiro Suzuki, Tomonori Suzuki, Haruka Motomura, Shiro Ando, Akira Fujishima, Katsuya Teshima and Chiaki Terashima
A TiO2-coated net with photocatalytic antibacterial properties that purifies water for practical use in developing countries was fabricated. The TiO2 particles were modified with a silane coupling agent, aminopropyltriethoxysilane or hexadecyltrimethoxys...
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Agnieszka Ossowska, Andrzej Zielinski, Jean-Marc Olive, Andrzej Wojtowicz and Piotr Szweda
The increasing demand for titanium and its alloys used for implants results in the need for innovative surface treatments that may both increase corrosion resistance and biocompatibility and demonstrate antibacterial protection at no cytotoxicity. The pu...
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Nima Meyer, Laura Ramos Rivera, Tim Ellis, Jiahui Qi, Mary P. Ryan and Aldo R. Boccaccini
This study investigated the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of the natural polymer zein combined with bioactive glass (BG) particles. Through the deposition of various BG compositions, namely 45S5 BG and Cu-doped BG, this work sought to demonstrate the ...
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Jie Liu, Jiawen Sun, Jizhou Duan, Xucheng Dong, Xinping Wang, Chao Liu and Baorong Hou
Capsaicin has been extensively studied for its excellent antifouling activity and very low environmental toxicity. However, mixing natural capsaicin with coatings can cause rapid capsaicin leakage, severely shortening its antifouling cycle. In this study...
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Qi Qiu, Mingchang Gao, Changtao Shao, Shaofang Sun, Yusen Liu and Huawei Zhang
Membrane fouling is a key factor limiting the application of a membrane bioreactor (MBR), and membrane-surface modification holds the potential to control membrane fouling and solves this problem. In the research, novel nanocomposite membranes were desig...
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Yu Zhou, Kaimin Chen, Li Liu, Shaoguo Wen and Taijiang Gui
Phthalocyanine pigments have many problems in waterborne coating applications because of their low polarity, poor dispersion in water, and easy agglomeration properties. In order to solve these problems, the phthalocyanine pigments were encapsulated with...
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Yangyang Luo, Ahmed Humayun and David K. Mills
Three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques have received considerable focus in the area of bone engineering due to its precise control in the fabrication of complex structures with customizable shapes, internal and external architectures, mechanical stre...
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