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ALD coated polypropylene hernia meshes for prevention of mesh-related post-surgery complications: an experimental study in animals

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BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 -

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-605X/ac361e

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antibacterial coatings; hernia repair; hernia infection; biofilm; ALD; polypropylene mesh; titanium dioxide

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  1. European Hernia Society
  2. Russian Federation Government [FZNZ-2020-0002]

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Thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) was used to synthesize vanadium (V)-doped TiO2 thin nanofilm on polypropylene (PP) hernia meshes to improve antibacterial properties. The V-doped TiO2 coatings showed significant inhibition of S. aureus and E. coli adhesion and demonstrated excellent antibacterial activity.
In this work, thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) was used to synthesize vanadium (V)-doped TiO2 thin nanofilm on polypropylene (PP) hernia meshes. Multiple layers of (Al2O3 + TiVO (x) ) nano-films were coated on the PP hernia mesh surface to provide a layer with a total thickness of 38 nm to improve its antibacterial properties, thereby, prevent mesh-related post-surgery complications. Highly conformal V-doped TiO2 nanofilm were deposited on PP mesh at a temperature of 85 degrees C. Rats and rabbits have been used to evaluate the tissue reaction on coated PP hernia meshes and biomechanical testing of the healed tissue. Five rabbits and ten rats have been implanted with ALD coated and uncoated (control) PP meshes into the back of rats and abdominal wall of rabbits. Histology of the mesh-adjacent tissues and electron microscopy of the explanted mesh surface were performed to characterize host tissue response to the implanted PP meshes. The effect of V-doped TiO2 coating on a living organism and fibroblast functions and bacterial activities were studied. The present results indicated that ALD coating improves adhesion properties and exhibited enhanced antibacterial activity compared to uncoated PP mesh. It was shown that V-doped TiO2 coatings were highly effective in inhibiting S. aureus and E. coli adhesion and exhibited excellent antibacterial activity. We found that V-doping of TiO2, unlike bare TiO2, allows generated and further procured strong redox reactions which effectively kills bacteria under visible light. We have reported comparative analysis of the use of undoped (bare) TiO2 and V-doped TiO2 as a coating for PP meshes and their action in biological environment and preventing biofilms formation compared with uncoated PP meshes. The PP meshes coated with V-doped TiO2 showed significantly lower shrinkage rates compared with an identical PP mesh without a coating. We have shown that ALD coatings provide non-adhesive and functional (antibacterial) properties.

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