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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Fabrication and Characterization of an Electrospun PHA/Graphene Silver Nanocomposite Scaffold for Antibacterial Applications.

Abdul Mukheem, Kasturi Muthoosamy, Sivakumar Manickam, Kumar Sudesh, Syed Shahabuddin, Rahman Saidur, Noor Akbar, Nanthini Sridewi

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdul MukheemDepartment of Maritime Science and Technology Faculty of Science and Defence Technology, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 57000, Malaysia. mukheembio@gmail.com.
Kasturi MuthoosamyDepartment of Chemical and Nano pharmaceutical Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia. Kasturi.Muthoosamy@nottingham.edu.my.
Sivakumar ManickamDepartment of Chemical and Nano pharmaceutical Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia. sivakumar.manickam@nottingham.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0001-9102-4013
Kumar SudeshApplied Microbiology and Ecobiomaterial Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia. ksudesh@usm.my.
Syed ShahabuddinResearch Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia. syedshahab.hyd@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5930-4138
Rahman SaidurResearch Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia. saidur@sunway.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0002-2656-3034
Noor AkbarDepartment of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia. noormicrobiologist555@gmail.com.
Nanthini SridewiDepartment of Maritime Science and Technology Faculty of Science and Defence Technology, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 57000, Malaysia. nanthini@upnm.edu.my.
National Defence University of Malaysia · MYSunway University · MYUniversity of Nottingham Malaysia Campus · MYAmerican University of Ras Al Khaimah · AEUniversiti Sains Malaysia · MY

Funding

Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia 2014/03-01-19-SF0127
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many wounds are unresponsive to currently available treatment techniques and therefore there is an immense need to explore suitable materials, including biomaterials, which could be considered as the crucial factor to accelerate the healing cascade. In this study, we fabricated polyhydroxyalkanoate-based antibacterial mats via an electrospinning technique. One-pot green synthesized graphene-decorated silver nanoparticles (GAg) were incorporated into the fibres of poly-3 hydroxybutarate-co-12 mol.% hydroxyhexanoate (P3HB-co-12 mol.% HHx), a co-polymer of the polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family which is highly biocompatible, biodegradable, and flexible in nature. The synthesized PHA/GAg biomaterial has been characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), elemental mapping, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). An in vitro antibacterial analysis was performed to investigate the efficacy of PHA/GAg against gram-positive

Indexed as

antibacterialelectrospun biomaterialgraphenePHAsilver nanoparticles

Identifiers

PMID30201852
PMCPMC6163631
OpenAlexW2889973507

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