Electrospun nonwoven materials are widely used for biomedical applications as drug delivery systems, wound dressing materials, scaffolds for tissue engineering due several reasons. First of all due structure of electrospun material – small diameter of nano-microfibers (from 10 nm), high specific surface area and porosity. Also due simple production method and variety of polymers. Electrospining is a process where using electrostatic forces nano-microfibers are formed from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), chitozan, poly-?-caprolactone (PCL), polylactic acid (PLA), polyvinilpyrolidone (PVP), polyurethane (PU) and et.c.
Natural products with biological active compounds have antibacterial properties and promote regeneration of tissues, such products are extracts of propolis, buckthorn, oregano, curcumin and etc. Insertion of such biological active products in structure of electrospun materials will form electrospun material with antibacterial properties, increase healing process of wounds.
The aim of this project is to form electrospun material with buckthorn oil and investigate the influence of bucthorn oil on electrospinning process and structure nonwoven material.
Project funding:
Project is funded by EU Structural Funds according to the 2014–2020 Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments priority “Development of scientific competence of researchers, other researchers, students through practical scientific activities” under Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712.
Project results:
During this project was done analysis of literature about electrospining process, applications areas of biomedical electrospun materials. In research part were formed electrospun materials with buckthorn oil from polyvinilpyrolidone (PVP) and bicomponent PVP/ methacrylic acic and methyl methacrylate (PMA) polymers. It was estimated that buckthorn oil has influence on viscosity, conductivity of PVP, PVP/PMA polymers solutions and the structure of electrospun material depend on amount of buckthorn oil.
Period of project implementation: 2019-07-01 - 2019-08-31
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
