Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages 1051-1060Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.36307
Keywords
graphene oxide; surface characterization; antibacterial activity; biocompatibility; electrical stimulus
Funding
- Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico [1150130]
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Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a biodegradable and biocompatible polyester widely used in biomedical applications. Unfortunately, this biomaterial suffers from some shortcomings related with the absence of both bioactivity and antibacterial capacity. In this work, composites of PLA with either graphene oxide (GO) or thermally reduced graphene oxide (TrGO) were prepared by melt mixing to overcome these limitations. PLA composites with both GO and TrGO inhibited the attachment and proliferation of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria depending on the kind and amount of filler. Noteworthy, it is shown that by applying an electrical stimulus to the percolated PLA/TrGO, the antibacterial behavior can be dramatically increased. MTT analysis showed that while all the PLA/GO composites were more cytocompatible to osteoblast-like cells (SaOS-2) than pure PLA, only low content of TrGO was able to increase this property. These tendencies were related with changes in the surface properties of the resulting polymer composites, such as polarity and roughness. In this way, the addition of GO and TrGO into a PLA matrix allows the development of multifunctional composites for potential applications in biomedicine. (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 106A: 1051-1060, 2018.
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