Wound Dressing Utilising Nonwoven Wool Matrix

Islam, Saniyat; Arnold, Lyndon; Padhye, Rajiv

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.535-537.1534

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“…Owing to the useful properties of wool, wool nonwoven fabrics have been prepared using different methods, including needle punching, stitch bonding for various applications including acoustic insulation [19], and geotextile [20]. Recently, Islam et al prepared chitosan-added wool nonwoven fabric for wound dressing applications, and reported its good absorbency and excellent antimicrobial properties [21].…”

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Fabrication, Structural Characteristics, and Properties of Sericin-Coated Wool Nonwoven Fabrics

Lee,

Jang,

2023

IJMS

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Recently, nonwoven fabrics from natural silk have attracted considerable attention for biomedical and cosmetic applications because of their good mechanical properties and cytocompatibility. Although these fabrics can be easily fabricated using the binding character of sericin, the high cost of silk material may restrict its industrial use in certain areas. In this study, sericin was added as a binder to a cheaper material (wool) to prepare wool-based nonwoven fabrics and investigate the effect of the amount of sericin added on the structural characteristics and properties of the wool nonwoven fabric. It was found using SEM that sericin coated the surface of wool fibers and filled the space between them. With an increase in sericin addition, the porosity, moisture regain, and the contact angle of the sericin-coated wool nonwoven fabric decreased. The maximum stress and initial Young’s modulus of the nonwoven fabric increased with the increase in sericin amount up to 32.5%, and decreased with a further increase in the amount of sericin. Elongation at the end steadily decreased with the increase in sericin addition. All of the nonwoven fabrics showed good cytocompatibility, which increased with the amount of sericin added. These results indicate that sericin-coated wool-based nonwoven fabrics may be successfully prepared by adding sericin to wool fibers, and that the properties of these fabrics may be diversely controlled by altering the amount of sericin added, making them promising candidates for biomedical and cosmetic applications.

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