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October 20-22, 2016 Rome, Italy
11th International Conference and Expo on
Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology
Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl) J Nanomed Nanotechnol 2016
ISSN: 2157-7439 JNMNT an open access journal NanoScience 2016
October 20-22, 2016
Study of some effective parameters on characterization of gelatin nanofiber prepared from gelatin-acetic acid
solution
Kooshina Koosha
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Electrospinnig is a simple, versatile and widely accepted technique to produce ultra-fine fibers ranging from nanometer to micron.
Recently there has been great interest in developing this technique to produce nanofibers with novel properties and functionalities.
Most of the works reported on electrospinning evolve on the synthetic biodegradable polymer for dozens of applications in medicine,
energy, transportation and electronic devices. In biomedical applications, synthetic biodegradable polymers such as polyester regularly
associated with poor biocompatibility and systemic or local reaction resulted from the acidic degradation products. Therefore,
naturally occurring polymers such gelatin has been widely explored due to its biocompatibility , biodegradability, hydrophilic in
nature and commercial availability at low cost. Gelatin is a natural biopolymer derived from collagens and has almost identical
compositions and biological properties as those of collagens. Accordingly, this natural biopolymer could be useful for dozens of
biomedical applications. In order to expand the range of applications and to produce uniform and very fine nanofibers, choosing a
non-toxic solvent, which will not degrade the gelatin structure and investigation of electrospinning parameters, play an important
role. In the present work, gelatin was prepared by acetic acid which has a less affection to degradation and is of low toxicity. The
morphology of electrospun gelatin nanofibers was characterized using scanning electron microscope (SEM). FTIR measurements
were performed in FTIR spectrometer to verify the composition of fibers for functional groups and determining whether acid has
affected the gelatin structure or not.
Biography
Kooshina Koosha has completed her BS in Textile Engineering/Textile Chemistry Major in 2013 and her MSc in Nanofibrous Structure in 2015 from Islamic Azad
University, Yadegar Imam, Shar-e-Rey Branch. She has submitted papers in conferences; some of which are: 1st Conference on Textile Engineering with latest
Methods in Related Industry at Islamic Azad University Tehran Branch-Iran, 4th National Conference on Textile Engineering, Polymer at Islamic Azad University
Yazd Branch-Iran and so on.
Kooshina Koosha, J Nanomed Nanotechnol 2016, 7:5 (Suppl)