Electro-Induced Coating of Chitosan on Centrifugal Spun Matrix – A Hybrid Composite for Biomedical Applications

Abstract

Electro-induced deposition is a novel surface modification technology that can be used for several biomedical applications. In the present work chitosan polymer was deposited on the centrifugal spun polymer matrices and Box-Benkhen experimental design method was used to study the effect process parameters namely applied voltage, duration of voltage application and molecular weight of chitosan on the add-on percentage of the chitosan on the matrices. It was found from the studies that all process parameters taken for the study have significant effect on the electro-deposition.

Keywords:

• Biocomposites
• Centrifugal spinning
• Chitosan
• Electro-deposition
• Polycaprolactone

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors acknowledge support from CSIR (22(0566)/12/EMR-II), Government of India.