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Influence of UV irradiation and subsequent chemical grafting on the surface properties of cellulose

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This work is devoted to the study of surface properties of cellulose before and after a surface modification. Surface modification of polymeric materials was carried out in two steps: (1) activation by UV irradiation at 254 or 365 nm, followed by (2) chemical grafting with alanine, leucine or curcumin. Two types of cellulose materials, regenerated cellulose and cotton, were studied. The structure of cellulose at different stages of modification was examined by available physical and physico-chemical techniques and antibacterial activity of prepared composites was studied too. Antibacterial assays were performed on selected substrates. The results show that the changes in surface properties depend on the wavelength of UV irradiation as well as on the irradiation time. Smaller molecules of grafted substances (alanine and leucine) are bound not only onto the cellulose surface but also into the cellulose pores in contrast with curcumin. Cellulose substrates modified with alanine, leucine or curcumin show antibacterial activity, especially for S. epidermidis, also slightly against E. coli. The obtained results indicated the strongest antibacterial effect for cellulose grafted with curcumin, where CFU reduced by almost 58% for E. coli and 55% for S. epidermidis in comparison with pristine, alanine and leucine have only smaller effect.

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This work was supported by the GACR Project No. GACR 20-01641S, by the Grant Agency of Health Ministry No. NU20-08-00208, by ERDF/ESF Project UniQSurf—Centre of biointerfaces and hybrid functional materials (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_048/0007411) and by the Research Infrastructure NanoEnviCz, supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Project No. LM2018124.

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  1. Materials Centre, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyně University, Pasteurova 15, 40096, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    Viktorie Neubertová & Zdeňka Kolská

  2. Department of Solid State Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Nikola Slepičková Kasálková & Václav Švorčík

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Chemistry and Technology, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Barbora Vokatá

  4. Department of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, 142 20, Prague 4, Czech Republic

    Lucie Bačáková

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Neubertová, V., Slepičková Kasálková, N., Vokatá, B. et al. Influence of UV irradiation and subsequent chemical grafting on the surface properties of cellulose. Cellulose 29, 1405–1418 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04426-8

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