Table 3:
Electrospinning of commercial polysaccharides and their comparison with tree gum hydrocolloids
| Commercial polysaccharides | Gum hydrocolloids with other carriers (polymers/solvents) for electrospinning |
Emerging applications | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guar gum | Water | Not defined | (Lubambo et al., 2013) |
| PVA/water | Biomedical | (Lubambo et al., 2015) | |
| Alginate | PVA/water | Antimicrobial wound dressings and tissue engineering |
(Fu et al., 2016) |
| Chitosan/ glycerol /acetic acid/ water |
Tissue antiadhesion barrier |
(Chang et al., 2012) | |
| Glycerol | Not defined | (Nie et al., 2008) | |
| Polyethylene oxide (PEO)/ Triton |
Not defined | (Bonino et al., 2011) | |
| Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/ water |
Not defined | (Islam and Karim, 2010) | |
| PVA / citric acid | Not defined | (Stone et al., 2013) | |
| Sodium alginate/PVA/nano ZnO |
Antibacterial wound dressings |
(Shalumon et al., 2011) | |
| Chitosan/PEO/ water/ 5% ethanol |
Not defined | (Nista et al., 2015) | |
| Pullulan | Cellulose acetate/ DMF/ DMSO |
skin or bone tissue engineering scaffolds |
(Atila et al., 2015) |
| Whey protein / phosphate-buffer |
Encapsulation of Bifidobacterium strains for functional foods |
(López-Rubio et al., 2012) | |
| DMSO | Not defined | (Kong and Ziegler, 2014) | |
| PVA/water | Distribution of bioactive compounds |
(Islam et al., 2012; Qian et al., 2016) | |
| Almond gum | PVA/water | Thermostable delivery system for vanillin |
(Rezaei et al., 2016) |
| Pectin | PEO/water | Biomedical, electrochemical devices, and drug delivery systems |
(Cui et al., 2016; Rockwell et al., 2014) |
| Chitosan/PVA/ Acetic acid/ water |
skin tissue scaffolds | (Lin et al., 2013) | |
| Alginate/PEO/NaOH solution |
Enhanced encapsulation of folic acid for functional foods |
(Alborzi et al., 2013, 2014) | |
| PEO/ water/ 1 wt% Triton X-100/ 5 wt% DMSO |
Not defined | (Cui et al., 2017) | |
| Agar | Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) |
Controlled drug release | (Yang et al., 2014) |
| PVA/water | Not defined | (Sousa et al., 2015a, 2015b) | |
| Carrageenan | Chitosan /caffeic acid–coated poly(3- hydroxybutyrate) |
Antibacterial and antioxidant activity |
(Ignatova et al., 2016) |
| Xanthan | Chitosan/ water | Drug delivery carriers | (Mendes et al., 2017b) |
| Formic acid | Not defined | (Shekarforoush et al., 2017) | |
| Gellan gum | PVA/water | Skin tissue regeneration | (Vashisth et al., 2014) |
| PVA/Water/ Ofloxacin |
Gastroretentive/mucoad hesive drug delivery |
(Vashisth et al., 2017, 2016) | |
| Gum Arabic | PVA/water | (Padil et al., 2016) | |
| Chitosan/gelatin/water | Tissue engineering | (Tsai et al., 2015) | |
| Gum Tragacanth |
Curcumin /poly(ε- caprolactone)/ acetic acid |
Biomedical | (Ranjbar-Mohammadi and Bahrami, 2016) |
| Poly lactic glycolic acid (PLGA) / tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) |
Controlled drug release | (Ranjbar-Mohammadi et al., 2016c) | |
| PVA / water | Wound dressing | (Ranjbar-Mohammadi et al., 2013) | |
| Poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/ poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) |
Scaffolds for skin substitutes |
(Zarekhalili et al., 2017) | |
| Gum Karaya | PVA/Water | Removal of NPs contamination from water |
(Padil et al., 2016; Padil and Černík, 2015) |
| Gum Kondagogu |
PVA/Water | Removal NPs from water |
(Padil et al., 2016, 2015c) |
| DDSA / PVA/ water | Antibacterial membrane | (Padil et al., 2015a) |