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Polysaccharide-based composites embedding silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) represent a promising alternative to common antimicrobial materials because of the effective, broad-spectrum biocidal properties of AgNPs combined with the biocompatibility and environmental safety of the naturally occurring polymeric component. In this work, AgNPs...

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A multi-layer nanofibrous membrane consisting in a layer of polycaprolactone and one of physically crosslinked alginate embedding ZnO nanoparticles is prepared via electrospinning technique as potential wound healing patches with drug delivery capabilities. A washing-crosslinking protocol is developed to obtain stable materials at the same time...

Alginate is a naturally occurring polysaccharide commonly derived from brown algae cell walls which possesses unique features that make it extremely promising for several biomedical and pharmaceutical purposes. Alginate biomaterials are indeed nowadays gaining increasing interest in drug delivery and tissue engineering applications owing to...

Alginate-based electrospun nanofibers prepared via electrospinning technique represent a class of materials with promising applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. However, to date, the effect of alginate molecular mass and block composition on the biological response of such systems remains to some extent unclear. As such,...