Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections

Vasile, Bogdan Stefan; Birca, Alexandra Catalina; Musat, Mihaela Carmen; Holban, Alina Maria

doi:10.3390/ma13071682

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Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections

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Bogdan Stefan Vasile

^1,2,*

,

Alexandra Catalina Birca

^1,2,

Mihaela Carmen Musat

³ and

Alina Maria Holban

⁴

¹

National Research Center for Micro and Nanomaterials, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei Street, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

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Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Polizu Street, No. 1-7, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

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Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Language, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, Splaiul Independenţei Street, No. 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Aleea Portocalelor, No. 1-3, 050663 Bucharest, Romania

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Materials 2020, 13(7), 1682; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071682

Submission received: 6 March 2020 / Revised: 25 March 2020 / Accepted: 31 March 2020 / Published: 3 April 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Fabricated Bioactive Materials: Surface Modification and Biomedical Applications)

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Infection represents one of the major risk factors in persistent and difficult to treat wounds. This study focuses on developing antimicrobial wound dressings coated with silver nanoparticles, sodium alginate and different essential oils, to avoid wound infection and biofilm formation. The design of the wound dressings was done by the dip coating method. The characteristics of the developed materials were analysed by physicochemical (FT-IR, XRD, SEM, TEM) and biological (antimicrobial tests) approaches. The results demonstrated uniform silver nanoparticle formation on the substrate, and the developed nanomodified dressings were proven to have increased antimicrobial and antibiofilm potential. The developed wound dressings based on silver nanoparticles, sodium alginate and essential oils have real potential in treating infections, and can be investigated as an efficient alternative to antibiotics and topical preparations for wound management.

Keywords: dip coating; silver nanoparticles; essential oils; antimicrobial

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Vasile, B.S.; Birca, A.C.; Musat, M.C.; Holban, A.M. Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections. Materials 2020, 13, 1682. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071682

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Vasile BS, Birca AC, Musat MC, Holban AM. Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections. Materials. 2020; 13(7):1682. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071682

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Vasile, Bogdan Stefan, Alexandra Catalina Birca, Mihaela Carmen Musat, and Alina Maria Holban. 2020. "Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections" Materials 13, no. 7: 1682. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071682

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Vasile, B. S., Birca, A. C., Musat, M. C., & Holban, A. M. (2020). Wound Dressings Coated with Silver Nanoparticles and Essential Oils for The Management of Wound Infections. Materials, 13(7), 1682. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071682

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