Villani Maurizio, Consonni Roberto, Canetti Maurizio, Bertoglio Federico, Iervese Stefano, Bruni Giovanna, Visai Livia, Iannace Salvatore, Bertini Fabio
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche "Giulio Natta"-CNR, Via A. Corti 12, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Department of Molecular Medicine (DMM), Center for Health Technologies (CHT), UdR INSTM, University of Pavia, Viale Taramelli 3/B, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Polymers (Basel). 2020 Feb 6;12(2):362. doi: 10.3390/polym12020362.
The challenge to manufacture medical devices with specific antibacterial functions, and the growing demand for systems able to limit bacterial resistance growth, necessitates the development of new technologies which can be easily produced at an industrial level. The object of this work was the study and the development of silver, titanium dioxide, and chitosan composites for the realization and/or implementation of biomedical devices. Thermoplastic elastomeric polyurethane was selected and used as matrix for the various antibacterial functions introduced during the processing phase (melt compounding). This strategy was employed to directly incorporate antimicrobial agents into the main constituent material of the devices themselves. With the exception of the composite filled with titanium dioxide, all of the other tested composites were shown to possess satisfactory mechanical properties. The best antibacterial effects were obtained with all the composites against : viability was efficiently inhibited by the prepared materials in four different bacterial culture concentrations.
制造具有特定抗菌功能的医疗设备面临挑战,且对能够限制细菌耐药性增长的系统的需求不断增加,这就需要开发能够在工业规模上轻松生产的新技术。这项工作的目的是研究和开发用于实现和/或应用生物医学设备的银、二氧化钛和壳聚糖复合材料。选择热塑性弹性体聚氨酯并将其用作在加工阶段(熔融共混)引入的各种抗菌功能的基质。采用这种策略将抗菌剂直接掺入设备本身的主要组成材料中。除了填充二氧化钛的复合材料外,所有其他测试的复合材料都显示出令人满意的机械性能。所有复合材料对以下方面均获得了最佳抗菌效果:在四种不同细菌培养浓度下,制备的材料有效地抑制了活力。