Preparation and Antibacterial Properties of Nanocomposite Fibers Made of Polyamide 6 and Silver-doped Hydroxyapatite
- Authors
- Lee, Duk Hyung; Min, Byung Gil
- Issue Date
- Sep-2014
- Publisher
- KOREAN FIBER SOC
- Keywords
- Polyamide 6; Hydroxyapatite; Silver; Nanocomposites; Antibacterial properties
- Citation
- FIBERS AND POLYMERS, v.15, no.9, pp.1921 - 1926
- Journal Title
- FIBERS AND POLYMERS
- Volume
- 15
- Number
- 9
- Start Page
- 1921
- End Page
- 1926
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/kumoh/handle/2020.sw.kumoh/19183
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12221-014-1921-1
- ISSN
- 1229-9197
- Abstract
- Nanocomposite fibers of polyamide 6 (PA6) and hydroxyapatite (HA) were prepared and doped with silver to investigate antibacterial activities due to good potential for textile modification. Nano-sized HA could be synthesized using agarose and ethanol as thickener and washing medium, respectively. The PA6/HA nanocomposite fibers could be doped with silver by dipping the fibers having HA in aqueous AgNO3 solution containing 300 ppm of Ag ion for 1 min utilizing HA as a carrier to load silver through ion-exchange mechanism. It was found that silver was successfully doped to PA6/HA nanocomposite fibers from the EDS spectra. The nanocomposite fibers containing 3.3 wt% of HA after silver doping demonstrated such excellent antibacterial activities against K pneumonia and E. coli that they are expected to serve as functional antibacterial materials in various application fields.
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