Pullulan for Advanced Sustainable Body- and Skin-Contact Applications

Coltelli, Maria Beatrice; Danti, Serena; Clerck, Karen De; Lazzeri, Andrea; Morganti, Pierfrancesco

doi:10.3390/jfb11010020

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“…PL, a natural linear exopolysaccharide (Fig. 1(b)), displays an α‐(1‐6) maltotriose unit where its alpha linkage provides a physical ability to be flexible and water‐soluble 30 …”

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Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract

Rodríguez

Padilla

Lozano

et al. 2020

Polymer International

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In this study, nanofibers composed of Opuntia cochenillifera nopal mucilage (N) extract combined with chitosan (CH) and pullulan (PL) (N/CH/PL) were produced via Forcespinning®. The developed nonwoven composite membranes are composed of long, continuous and homogeneous fibers with average fiber diameter varying between 251 ± 77 nm and 406 ± 127 nm depending on the concentration of N. After crosslinking, the developed membranes were highly stable in water. The water absorption capacity of the N/CH/PL composite nanofiber membranes was shown to be 65% higher compared to CH/PL nanofiber membranes. Nopal dip-coated membranes show inhibition of Gram-negative Escherichia coli, indicating antibacterial properties. These findings suggest that the incorporation of naturally derived nopal extract into nanofiber systems could provide a natural alternative for dressings used in wound healing applications.

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“…PL, a natural linear exopolysaccharide (Fig. 1(b)), displays an α‐(1‐6) maltotriose unit where its alpha linkage provides a physical ability to be flexible and water‐soluble 30 …”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract

Rodríguez

Padilla

Lozano

et al. 2020

Polymer International

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“…The use of pullulan [74] or starch results in not being suitable for the SFMs, because these biopolymers are soluble or easily swell out in water. Hence the water vapor of human breathing can induce the partial dissolution of the mask.…”

Section: Innovative Renewable and Biodegradable Polymers For Non-woven Tissuesmentioning

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Trends in Surgical and Beauty Masks for a Cleaner Environment

Morganti

Yudin

Morganti³

et al. 2020

Cosmetics

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The surgical face mask (SFM) is a sheet medical device covering the mouth, nose and chin to protect the medical staff from the spread of respiratory droplets produced by the infective coughing or sneezing of hospitalized patients. On the other hand the beauty face mask (BFM) has been made by the same sheet but with a different aim—to protect the skin from pollution, acting as a hydrating and rejuvenation agent. Currently, both masks are made principally by non-biodegradable tissues, utilized to avoid the increasing great pollution invading our planet. Due to the diffusion of the current COVID-19 infection rate and the increasing consumption of skin care and beauty products, the waste of these masks, made principally by petrol-derived polymers, is creating further intolerable waste-invaded land and oceans. After an introduction to the aims, differences and market of the various masks, their productive means and ingredients are reported. These news are believed necessary to give the reader the working knowledge of these products, in the context of the bioeconomy, to better understand the innovative tissues proposed and realized by the biobased and biodegradable polymers. Thus, the possibility of producing biodegradable SFMs and BFMs, characterized for their effective antimicrobial and skin repairing activities or hydrating and antiaging activity, respectively. These innovative smart and biodegradable masks are requested from the majority of consumers oriented towards a future green environment. Giving this new sense of direction to their production and consumption, it will be possible to reduce the current waste, ranging worldwide at about 2 billion tons per year.

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“…Health and the environment, in fact, would represent our future priorities, as well as beauty from the inside out represented a necessity for all the cultures, first of all, the Chinese ones, as part of their traditional medicine [5]. Thus, living a healthy lifestyle is listed today as the top key priority, specifically for Millennials (aged [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] and Gen-Z (aged 18-24) Chinese consumers [6,7]. However, all the consumers from 22 to 73 years old both in West and in East take particular attention to health and wellbeing, suffering also from stress due to the actual life-style and the post-COVID-19 consequences [4,6,7].…”

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“…Many are the different natural polymers involved in the life and tissue engineering processes, obtainable from fisher's by-products, such as chitin and its derived compounds, from plant biomass as alginates, cellulose, and polyphenolic lignin, or from bacteria fermentation as PHA, PLA, and pullulan [19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Natural Polymer Fibre Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-COVID-19: An Opportunity to Produce Biodegradable Goods & Surgical Masks to Save the Environment

Morganti

Morganti²

2020

J Health Care and Research

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Consumption of natural raw materials is causing climate changing, by an acceleration of glaciers, oceans, and forests’ depletions with the contemporary accumulation of waste materials. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has further incremented the waste material of plastics because of the obligatory use of surgery masks, made prevalently by the non-biodegradable polypropylene. Thus, the necessity to change the way of producing and consuming transforming the linear economy based on the taking, make, and waste in the circular economy of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Changing the actual way of living, it will be also possible to drastically reduce the increasing plastics waste that, invading lands and oceans are entering into the food chain with negative effects on fauna flora and the human’s wellbeing. Just to remember the global production of plastics exploded from 1.5 million metric tons in 1950 to nearly 350 million metric tons in 2017 and, disposed to the landfill as waste, are producing global greenhouse gas emissions of 2.8 billion tons per year. Being the technology ready, it is proposed to produce natural polymers, such as chitin and lignin which, obtainable from waste materials, may be used to produce biodegradable goods and surgical and beauty masks. By this way it will be possible to maintain the natural raw materials for future generations, saving human wellbeing and the world’s biodiversity.

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Pullulan for Advanced Sustainable Body- and Skin-Contact Applications

Cited by 71 publications

References 79 publications

Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract

Fabrication of Forcespinning® nanofibers incorporating nopal extract

Trends in Surgical and Beauty Masks for a Cleaner Environment

Post-COVID-19: An Opportunity to Produce Biodegradable Goods & Surgical Masks to Save the Environment

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