Reservoir Effect of Textile Substrates on the Delivery of Essential Oils Microencapsulated by Complex Coacervation

Microcapsules are being used in textile substrates increasingly more frequently, availing a wide spectrum of possibilities that are relevant to future research trends. Biofunctional Textiles is a new field that should be carefully studied, especially when dealing with microencapsulated essential oil...

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Published in:Polymers 2024-02, Vol.16 (5), p.670
Main Authors: Valle, José Alexandre Borges, Curto Valle, Rita de Cássia Siqueira, da Costa, Cristiane, Maestá, Fabrício Bezerra, Lis Arias, Manuel José
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cotton
Essences and essential oils
Essential oils
Geometry
Identification and classification
Oils & fats
Polyesters
Polymers
Principles
Properties
Reservoirs
Substrates
Textile fabrics
Textiles
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Summary:Microcapsules are being used in textile substrates increasingly more frequently, availing a wide spectrum of possibilities that are relevant to future research trends. Biofunctional Textiles is a new field that should be carefully studied, especially when dealing with microencapsulated essential oils. In the final step, when the active principle is delivered, there are some possibilities to quantify and simulate its doses on the skin or in the environment. At that stage, there is a phenomenon that can help to better control the delivery and the reservoir effect of the textile substrate. Depending on the chemical characteristics of the molecule to be delivered, as well as the structure and chemical nature of the fabric where it has been applied, there is physicochemical retention exerted by fibers that strongly controls the final rate of principle active delivery to the external part of the textile substrate. The study of this type of effect in two different substrates (cotton and polyester) will be described here regarding two different essential oils microencapsulated and applied to the substrates using padding technology. The experimental results of the final drug delivery demonstrate this reservoir effect in both essential oils.
ISSN:2073-4360
2073-4360
DOI:10.3390/polym16050670