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Cotton bandages finished with microcapsules of volatile organic constituents of marine macro-algae for wound healing

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Microencapsulation is an innovative technique having a growing application in textile finishing. Besides, marine macroalgae contain plenty of phytoconstituents used in various fields especially textile finishing. This work imparts the property of wound healing finish to cotton fabrics producing a bandage from eco-friendly algal volatile organic constituents (VOCs). VOCs extracted from Digenea simplex, Lurencea papillosa, Galaxurea oblongata, and Turbenaria decurrens Egyptian marine macroalgae scattered along the coastline of the Red sea were 0.52, 0.9, 0.87, and 0.62% (v/w), respectively. These VOCs as well as their microencapsulated (VOM) forms were finished onto cotton fabrics by a conventional pad-dry cure technique using sodium alginate (SA) as a shell wall material. The VOCs of each alga were extracted and chemically investigated using gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The results indicate, in addition to the identification of 125 volatile compounds, the diversity and outstanding differences in volatile composition among the 4 algae. Wound healing activities of the finished fabrics were evaluated. VOCs microcapsules-finished (VOMF) fabrics were more effective compared to VOCs-finished (VOF) fabrics and almost comparable to mebo-ointment (standard drug)-finished (MoF) fabrics. The differences in VOCs efficiencies may be attributable to the diversity in type and amount of volatiles found in the four algae. Therefore, this is a low-cost, convenient, reproducible, and scalable way to obtain encapsulated VOCs for the application in textile wound healing.

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El-Rafie, H.M., Zahran, M.K. & Raoof, G.F.A. Cotton bandages finished with microcapsules of volatile organic constituents of marine macro-algae for wound healing. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 45, 203–216 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-021-02653-0

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