Abstract
Antibiotic loaded nanomeshes were fabricated by electrospinning polycaprolactone, a biocompatible polymer, with 12.5% w/w Colistin, 1.4% w/w Vancomycin and either cationic or anionic gold nanoparticles in varying combinations. The resulting nanomeshes had different antibiotic release profiles, with citrate capped gold nanoparticles combined with Colistin having the highest sustained release over 14 days for a 4 mg, 1.5 cm2 nanomesh. The electrospinning parameters were optimised to ensure the spinning of a homogenous mesh and the addition of antibiotics was confirmed through 1H NMR and ATR-FTIR. This research, as a proof of concept, suggests an opportunity for fabricating nanomeshes which contain gold nanoparticles as a drug release mechanism for antibiotics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 30064-30070 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | RSC Advances |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 52 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Sept 2019 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- nanoparticles
- nanomesh
- antibiotic