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JOURNAL OF THE TEXTILE INSTITUTE
Volume 113, Issue 9, Pages 2016-2032Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2021.1957277
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Polymeric textiles bionanocomposites; biocomposites; nanobiocomposites; natural fibers; nanoparticles; bioactive molecules; immobilization techniques
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Recent research has led to the fabrication of NF biocomposites for biomedical applications by combining natural fibers with nanoparticles. These materials immobilize biomolecules to achieve various medical behaviors suitable for drug delivery and biomedicals.
Recently, comingling of natural fibers (NFs) derived from renewable resources, and nanoparticles with synthetic and biopolymeric matrices has resulted in fabrication of NF biocomposites, nanobiocomposites, and bionanocomposites (NFB). The quests to inculcate biomedical behavior to these materials have resulted in immobilization of biomolecules such as bioactive peptides, plant extracts/essential oils, ligands, enzymes, and so on, via varying techniques, within these materials, to attain antibacterial, anticancerous, antispasmotic, antidiabetic, anticough, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiarthritic, analgesic, antibiotic, antiatherogenic, antiulcer, antipyretic, immunomodulatory, as well as, chemo-preventive behaviors suitable for drug delivery and biomedicals. Therefore, this article presents a general overview of novel trends in fabricating NFB for biomedical applications with emphasis on varying approaches of immobilizing bioactive molecules, as well as chemically and physically affiliated modification techniques enhancing the fabrication of polymeric textiles biocomposites, nanobiocomposites, and bionanocomposites.
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