Curcumin-Containing Orthopedic Implant Coatings Deposited on Poly-Ether-Ether-Ketone/Bioactive Glass/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers by Electrophoretic Deposition
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Ranjot Singh Virk 1, Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman 1,2
, Muhammad Azeem Munawar 3, Dirk W. Schubert 3, Wolfgang H. Goldmann 4, Ján Dusza 5 and Aldo R. Boccaccini 1,*
Ranjot Singh Virk 1, Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman 1,2, Muhammad Azeem Munawar 3, Dirk W. Schubert 3, Wolfgang H. Goldmann 4, Ján Dusza 5 and Aldo R. Boccaccini 1,*
1
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerstr. 6, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Space Technology Islamabad, 1, Islamabad Highway, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
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Institute of Polymer Materials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
4
Department of Biophysics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Henkestr. 91, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
5
Institute of Material Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 040001 Kosice, Slovak Republic
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Coatings 2019, 9(9), 572; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings9090572
Received: 24 July 2019 / Revised: 15 August 2019 / Accepted: 28 August 2019 / Published: 8 September 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrochemical and Electrophoretic Deposition of Bioactive Coatings)
Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) was used to produce a multilayer coatings system based on chitosan/curcumin coatings on poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK)/bioactive glass (BG)/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers (previously deposited by EPD on 316L stainless steel) to yield bioactive and antibacterial coatings intended for orthopedic implants. Initially, PEEK/BG/h-BN coatings developed on 316L stainless steel (SS) substrates were analyzed for wear studies. Then, the EPD of chitosan/curcumin was optimized on 316L SS for suspension stability, thickness, and homogeneity of the coatings. Subsequently, the optimized EPD parameters were applied to produce chitosan/curcumin coatings on the PEEK/BG/h-BN layers. The multilayered coatings produced by EPD were characterized in terms of composition, microstructure, drug release kinetics, antibacterial activity, and in vitro bioactivity. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) confirmed the deposition of chitosan/curcumin on the multilayer coating system. The release of curcumin upon immersion of multilayer coatings in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) was confirmed by ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) spectroscopic analysis. The antibacterial effect of chitosan/curcumin as the top coating was determined by turbidity tests (optical density measurements). Moreover, the multilayer coating system formed an apatite-like layer upon immersion in simulated body fluid (SBF), which is similar in composition to the hydroxyapatite component of bone, confirming the possibility of achieving close bonding between bone and the coating surface.
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Keywords:
curcumin; chitosan; bioactive coatings; electrophoretic deposition; antibacterial coatings
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Virk, R.S.; Rehman, M.A.U.; Munawar, M.A.; Schubert, D.W.; Goldmann, W.H.; Dusza, J.; Boccaccini, A.R. Curcumin-Containing Orthopedic Implant Coatings Deposited on Poly-Ether-Ether-Ketone/Bioactive Glass/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Layers by Electrophoretic Deposition. Coatings 2019, 9, 572.
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