Antimicrobial sustainable biopolymers for biomedical plastics applications – an overview
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چکیده
The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the need for personal protective equipment (PPE), especially medical personnel: face masks, full clothing, gloves and goggles. To date, they are usually made of thermoplastic polymers, such as polypropylene (PP). reduce risk secondary infections it is essential to enhance antimicrobial (especially antibacterial antiviral) properties materials used in PPE. There some attempts modify by, example, silver nanoparticles or zinc oxides. increasing demand equipment, mostly leads an increase environmental problem non-biodegradable wastes. Therefore researches on use safer user’s health sustainable biodegradable biopolymer fibers, cellulose, starch, chitosan, poly(lactic acid) (PLA) poly(glycolic (PGA), have been done. These biopolymers their discussed this article.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Polimery
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0032-2725']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14314/polimery.2021.11.2