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Preparation and study of the antibacterial ability of graphene oxide-catechol hybrid polylactic acid nanofiber mats.
Colloids and Surfaces. B, Biointerfaces 2018 September 6
The functionalization of electrospun mats with antimicrobial nanomaterials is an attractive strategy when developing functional graphene oxide coating materials to prevent bacterial colonization on surfaces. In this study, we demonstrated a simple approach to produce antimicrobial electrospun mats by dip-coating a polylactic acid (PLA) nanofiber into a graphene oxide-catechol derivative. PLA was first electrospun to yield narrow-diameter polymeric nanofibers. We then modified the graphene oxide (GO) with a catechol derivative - dopamine methacrylamide monomer (DMA) - to synthesize a GO-DMA nanocomposite material which exhibited robust antimicrobial properties. The catechol groups promote the immobilization of graphene oxide onto the PLA nanofibers and possess strong antimicrobial properties. We therefore selected this functional group to modify GO. We dipped the GO-DMA onto the PLA nanofiber to produce the final functionalized electrospun mats. The PLA mats which were functionalized using the GO-DMA nanocomposite (PLA-GO-DMA) displayed antibacterial activity against both Gram-negative (Escherichia coli) and Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria. Furthermore, we studied the biocompatibility of the mats by culturing the cell lines (HepG2, A549, and HUVEC-C) of PLA-GO-DMA among the nanofibers which exhibited excellent biocompatibility. These results collectively demonstrate the potential of PLA-GO-DMA nanofiber mats as antimicrobial biomaterials and provide fundamental information toward the establishment of future biomedical applications.
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