Bioinspired, Ultrastrong, Highly Biocompatible, and Bioactive Natural Polymer/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Films

Wen-Kun Zhu; Huai-Ping Cong; Hong-Bin Yao; Li-Bo Mao; Abdullah M Asiri; Khalid A Alamry; Hadi M Marwani; Shu-Hong Yu

doi:10.1002/smll.201500486

Bioinspired, Ultrastrong, Highly Biocompatible, and Bioactive Natural Polymer/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Films

Small. 2015 Sep 9;11(34):4298-302. doi: 10.1002/smll.201500486. Epub 2015 Jun 19.

Authors

Wen-Kun Zhu^{1

2}, Huai-Ping Cong³, Hong-Bin Yao¹, Li-Bo Mao¹, Abdullah M Asiri⁴, Khalid A Alamry⁴, Hadi M Marwani⁴, Shu-Hong Yu¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, The National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
² State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base for Nonmetal Composites and Functional Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621000, P. R. China.
³ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230039, P. R. China.
⁴ Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 26097134
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201500486

Abstract

Tough and biocompatible nanocomposite films: A new type of bioinspired ultrastrong, highly biocompatible, and bioactive konjac glucomannan (KGM)/graphene oxide (GO) nanocomposite film is fabricated on a large scale by a simple solution-casting method. Such KGM-GO composite films exhibit much enhanced mechanical properties under the strong hydrogen-bonding interactions, showing great potential in the fields of tissue engineering and food package.

Keywords: biocompatibility; graphene oxide; konjac glucomannan; mechanical strength; nanocomposite films; nanocomposites.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biocompatible Materials / chemistry*
Cell Shape
Graphite / chemistry*
Mannans / chemistry*
Materials Testing / methods*
Mice
Nanocomposites / chemistry*
Oxides / chemistry*
Polymers / chemistry*
RAW 264.7 Cells
Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared

Substances

Biocompatible Materials
Mannans
Oxides
Polymers
(1-6)-alpha-glucomannan
Graphite