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Symposium: S07 - Fibers and Films
Oral Presentation
 
 

Antibacterial property of chitosan/gelatin blend nanofibers

Habibi Sima (1)*, Rezvani zahra (1), Samimi Gharai Sadaf (1)

(1) Islamic azad university ,Shahr-e-Rey Branch - Tehran - Iran

Natural polymers have wide variety of applications due to their biocompatibility .Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer obtained from the exoskeleton of crustaceans. Chitosan is derived through the partial deacetylation.Because of its favorable physicochemical and biological properties such as its being biocompatible ,non-toxic and antibacterial , chitosan is considered as an attractive material that can potentially be used in many biomedically related applications. Gelatin is protein that contains high contents of glycine, proline,andhydroxyproline.Gelatin has been used as wound dressing,adhesive,and as absorbent pad during surgery. Electrospinning and polymer blending are amongst the effective methods to provide new and desirable biocomposites. In present work chitosan was blended with gelatin and the focus of this study was on the chitosan and gelatin concretions on morphology of resulting nanofibers .The morphology of electrospunchiosan-gelatin blend nanofibers were characterized using scanning electron microscope (SEM).the miscibility of blend was determined using a SEM and Fourier transform infrared spectrometer(FTIR).antibacterial property of samples was also investigated.