A Facile Approach to Fabricate Dual Purpose Hybrid Materials for Tissue Engineering and Water Remediation.

ABSTRACT: Creating hybrid materials with multifunctionality and robust mechanical stability from natural resources is a challenging proposition in materials science. Here, we report the scalable synthesis of hybrid collagen scaffolds using collagen extracted from leather industry wastes and sago starch derived from agro-industry. The hybrid scaffolds were incorporated with TiO2 nanoparticles and cross-linked with oxidized sago starch. The biocompatibility, thermal stability and antimicrobial property of hybrid scaffold enabled its application in burn wound healing demonstrated through albino rat models. The highly porous hybrid scaffolds are shown to be super-compressible, which is typically forbidden in materials of biological origin. We demonstrate that the hybrid scaffolds concurrently display bo

SUBMITTER: Kalirajan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6355841 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature