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Stroe M, Burlanescu T, Paraschiv M, Lőrinczi A, Matei E, Ciobanu R, Baibarac M. Optical and Structural Properties of Composites Based on Poly(urethane) and TiO 2 Nanowires. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:ma16041742. [PMID: 36837374 PMCID: PMC9959890 DOI: 10.3390/ma16041742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
This article's objective is the synthesis of new composites based on thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and TiO2 nanowires (NWs) as free-standing films, highlighting their structural and optical properties. The free-standing TPU-TiO2 NW films were prepared by a wet chemical method accompanied by a thermal treatment at 100 °C for 1 h, followed by air-drying for 2 h. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies indicated that the starting commercial TiO2 NW sample contains TiO2 tetragonal anatase (A), cubic Ti0.91O (C), and orthorhombic Ti2O3 (OR), as well as monoclinic H2Ti3O7 (M). In the presence of TPU, an increase in the ratio between the intensities of the diffraction peaks at 43.4° and 48° belonging to the C and A phases of titanium dioxide, respectively, is reported. The increase in the intensity of the peak at 43.4° is explained to be a consequence of the interaction of TiO2 NWs with PTU, which occurs when the formation of suboxides takes place. The variation in the ratio of the absorbance of the IR bands peaked at 765-771 cm-1 and 3304-3315 cm-1 from 4.68 to 4.21 and 3.83 for TPU and the TPU-TiO2 NW composites, respectively, with TiO2 NW concentration equal to 2 wt.% and 17 wt.%, indicated a decrease in the higher-order aggregates of TPU with a simultaneous increase in the hydrogen bonds established between the amide groups of TPU and the oxygen atoms of TiO2 NWs. The decrease in the ratio of the intensity of the Raman lines peaked at 658 cm-1 and 635 cm-1, which were assigned to the vibrational modes Eg in TiO2 A and Eg in H2Ti3O7 (ITiO2-A/IH2Ti3O7), respectively, from 3.45 in TiO2 NWs to 0.94-0.96 in the TPU-TiO2 NW composites, which indicates that the adsorption of TPU onto TiO2 NWs involves an exchange reaction of TPU in the presence of TiO2 NWs, followed by the formation of new hydrogen bonds between the -NH- of the amide group and the oxygen atoms of TixO2x-mn, Ti2O3, and Ti0.91O. Photoluminescence (PL) studies highlighted a gradual decrease in the intensity of the TPU emission band, which is situated in the spectral range 380-650 nm, in the presence of TiO2 NW. After increasing the TiO2 NW concentration in the TPU-TiO2 NW composite mass from 0 wt.% to 2 wt.% and 17 wt.%, respectively, a change in the binding angle of the TPU onto the TiO2 NW surface from 12.6° to 32° and 45.9°, respectively, took place.
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Affiliation(s)
- Malvina Stroe
- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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- SC All Green SRL, 8 George Cosbuc Str., 700470 Iasi, Romania
- Electrical Engineering Faculty, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Dimitrie Mangeron Bd. 67, 700050 Iasi, Romania
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- National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, Bucharest, Atomistilor Street 405A, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
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Wang H, Christiansen DE, Mehraeen S, Cheng G. Winning the fight against biofilms: the first six-month study showing no biofilm formation on zwitterionic polyurethanes. Chem Sci 2020; 11:4709-4721. [PMID: 34122926 PMCID: PMC8159170 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc06155j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Biofilms have been a long-standing challenge for healthcare, water transport, and many other industries. They lead to bacterial growth and infections in animals, food products, and humans, cause premature removal of the implanted materials or devices from patients, and facilitate fouling and corrosion of metals. Despite some published and patented methods on minimizing the effects of biofilms for a short period (less than two weeks), there exists no successful means to mitigate or prevent the long-term formation of biofilms. It is even more challenging to integrate critical anti-fouling properties with other needed physical and chemical properties for a range of applications. In this study, we developed a novel approach for combining incompatible, highly polar anti-fouling groups with less polar, mechanically modifying groups into one material. A multifunctional carboxybetaine precursor was designed and introduced into polyurethane. The carboxybetaine precursors undergo rapid, self-catalyzed hydrolysis at the water/material interface and provide critical anti-fouling properties that lead to undetectable bacterial attachment and zero biofilm formation after six months of constant exposure to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis under the static condition in a nutrient-rich medium. This zwitterionic polyurethane is the first material to demonstrate both critical anti-biofilm properties and tunable mechanical properties and directly validates the unproven anti-fouling strategy and hypothesis for biofilm formation prevention. This approach of designing 'multitasking materials' will be useful for the development of next generation anti-fouling materials for a variety of applications.
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- Huifeng Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago IL 60607 USA https://gancheng.people.uic.edu
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago IL 60607 USA https://gancheng.people.uic.edu
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago IL 60607 USA https://gancheng.people.uic.edu
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago IL 60607 USA https://gancheng.people.uic.edu
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Wang H, Hu Y, Lynch D, Young M, Li S, Cong H, Xu FJ, Cheng G. Zwitterionic Polyurethanes with Tunable Surface and Bulk Properties. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:37609-37617. [PMID: 30335927 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b10450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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To address the lack of blood compatibility and antifouling properties of polyurethanes (PUs), a novel zwitterionic poly(carboxybetaine urethane) (PCBHU) platform with excellent antifouling and tunable mechanical properties is presented. PCBHU was synthesized via the condensation polymerization of diisocyanate with carboxybetaine (CB)-based triols. Postpolymerization hydrolysis of triol segments at the interface generates zwitterionic CB functional groups that provide superior antifouling properties via the enhanced hydration capacities of CB groups. Thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry measurement show the high thermal stability of PCBHU with up to 305 °C degradation temperature. Tunable mechanical properties and water uptakes can be finely tuned by controlling the structure and ratio of CB-based triol cross-linkers. This study presents a new strategy to incorporate CB functional groups into PU without significantly changing the synthetic methods and conditions of PU. It also provides a deeper understanding on structure-property relationships of zwitterionic PUs. Because of its superior antifouling properties than existing PUs and similar cost, mechanical properties, stability, and processability, PCBHU has the great potential to replace current PUs and may open a new avenue to PUs for more challenging biomedical applications in which the existing PUs are limited by calcification and poor antifouling properties.
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- Huifeng Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Akron , Akron , Ohio 44325 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Akron , Akron , Ohio 44325 , United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials , Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing 100029 , China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60607 , United States
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Weisenberg SH, TerMaath SC, Seaver CE, Killeffer JA. Ventricular catheter development: past, present, and future. J Neurosurg 2016; 125:1504-1512. [DOI: 10.3171/2015.12.jns151181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cerebrospinal fluid diversion via ventricular shunting is the prevailing contemporary treatment for hydrocephalus. The CSF shunt appeared in its current form in the 1950s, and modern CSF shunts are the result of 6 decades of significant progress in neurosurgery and biomedical engineering. However, despite revolutionary advances in material science, computational design optimization, manufacturing, and sensors, the ventricular catheter (VC) component of CSF shunts today remains largely unchanged in its functionality and capabilities from its original design, even though VC obstruction remains a primary cause of shunt failure. The objective of this paper is to investigate the history of VCs, including successful and failed alterations in mechanical design and material composition, to better understand the challenges that hinder development of a more effective design.
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- 2Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Liu P, Huang T, Liu P, Shi S, Chen Q, Li L, Shen J. Zwitterionic modification of polyurethane membranes for enhancing the anti-fouling property. J Colloid Interface Sci 2016; 480:91-101. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Revised: 07/03/2016] [Accepted: 07/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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