Drug‐Eluting Medical Textiles: From Fiber Production and Textile Fabrication to Drug Loading and Delivery

Abstract

Back Cover: Drug‐eluting medical textiles have been extensively used in various biomedical applications recently due to their cost‐effectiveness and unique physical and chemical properties. Different fiber production, textile fabrication, and drug loading technologies are used to process the biomaterials to three‐dimensional medical textiles that can be used for wound care, tissue engineering, and transdermal drug delivery applications. This is reported by Samaneh Ghazanfari and co‐workers in article number 2100021.

Surface Functionalization of Polypropylene Nonwoven Fabric for Introducing Repeatable Controlled Drug Release Property

“…[1][2][3][4][5] For in vivo use, it is necessary that the material surface possesses antibacterial or anti-inflammatory properties due to the risk of postoperative inflammation and invasion of infectious microorganisms. [6][7] Therefore, the development of drug-immobilized PP materials with controlled drug release property is required. However, PP does not have a reactive functional group and exhibits extremely poor interactions with other molecules.…”

“…In addition, electrospinning, the general method for producing drugsupported nanofibers, cannot be applied to PP because it is insoluble in organic solvents. 7 Hence, surface modification is the prevalent technique utilized for immobilizing drugs on PP fibers. Gupta et al reported excellent results for sustained drug release via graft copolymerization of N-isopropyl acrylamide (NIPAAm) and acrylic acid onto PP NWF surfaces.…”