Infection is a major complication associated with orthopedic implants. It often involves the development of biofilms on metal substrates, which act as barriers to the host's immune system and systemic antibiotic treatment. The current standard of treatment is revision surgery, often involving the delivery of antibiotics through incorporation into bone cements. However, these materials exhibit sub‐optimal antibiotic release kinetics and revision surgeries have drawbacks of high cost and recovery time. Here, a new approach is presented using induction heating of a metal substrate, combined with an antibiotic‐loaded poly(ester amide) coating undergoing a glass transition just above physiological temperature to enable thermally triggered antibiotic release. At normal physiological temperature, the coating provides a rifampicin depot for >100 days, while heating of the coating accelerates drug release, with >20% release over a 1‐h induction heating cycle. Induction heating or antibiotic‐loaded coating alone each reduce Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) viability and biofilm formation on Ti, but the combination causes synergistic killing of S. aureus as measured by crystal violet staining, determination of bacterial viability (>99.9% reduction), and fluorescence microscopy of bacteria on surfaces. Overall, these materials provide a promising platform enabling externally triggered antibiotic release to prevent and/or treat bacterial colonization of implants.
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