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SM Journal of Biomedical Engineering

Electrospinning of Crude Plant Extracts for Antibacterial and Wound Healing Applications: A Review

[ ISSN : 2573-3702 ]

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Received: 19-Mar-2018

Accepted: 12-Apr-2018

Published: 16-Apr-2018

Review Article | Volume 4 - Issue 1 | Article DOI :

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Atta ur Rehman Khan¹, Shi Xiangyang¹, Aftab Ahmad², and Xiu-mei Mo¹

¹College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, China
²Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

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Xiu-mei Mo, College of chemistry, chemical engineering and biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China, Tel: +86 21 67792653; Email: xmm@dhu.edu.cn

Keywords

Electrospinning; Plant extracts; Antibacterial; Wound healing; Nanofibers

Abstract

A great progress has been made, since 2000, in the field of electrospinning (ES). ES has been turned out to be the most reliable, simple and cheap technique for the fabrication of nanofibers. The other aspect, associated with ES, is control over certain characteristic features of the nanofibers during the fabrication of nanofibers. Thousands of research studies have been conducted by using both natural and synthetic polymers. ES provides wide options for loading bioactive compounds into the polymers. Plant extracts are reservoir of such bioactive compounds with potential biomedical applications. This review is aimed to provide a brief overview of some recent research work in which plant crude extracts have been loaded with other natural or synthetic polymers for antibacterial and wound healing applications.

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Khan AR, Xiangyang S, Ahmad A and Mo X. Electrospinning of Crude Plant Extracts for Antibacterial and Wound Healing Applications: A Review. SM J Biomed Eng. 2018; 4(1): 1024.