Giuliana Orlandini
Design and characterization of a supramolecular hydrogel containing nanoparticles with antioxidant and antibacterial properties to treat chronic wounds.
Rel. Clara Mattu, Gianluca Ciardelli, Monica Boffito. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2022
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Abstract
Chronic wound (CW) treatment represents one of the main challenges of modern medicine. As CWs result from a variety of causes, their treatment is particularly difficult and can adversely affect patient’s life. A serious obstacle to CW treatment is represented by bacterial resistance to antibiotics. This thesis aimed at the design of a hydrogel intended to be placed in contact with the bed of CWs to stimulate wound remission, without the use of antibiotics. To obtain this result, an injectable supramolecular (SM) polyurethane (PU) hydrogel was loaded with antioxidant and antibacterial nanoparticles (NPs). The NPs were obtained by combining two plant- derived polyphenolic compounds with antioxidant properties, lignin, and tannic acid.
The project focused on the optimization of a green synthesis exploiting the enzymatic activity of laccase to promote lignin phenolation, fundamental to strongly increase NP antioxidant properties
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