Antimikrobiyal Medikal Tekstil Ürünleri için Oleuropein Uygulaması

The olive plant has been an important source of nutrition and medicine of the Mediterranean. In this study it is aimed to design a textile product conserve oleuropein compound as a medical textile. Oleuropein was used in different concentrations with different cross-linker and applied to cotton fabric by pad-drycure method. FTIR-ATR and SEM were used to examine the presence of the oleuropein on the cotton fabrics. The oleuropein applied cotton fabrics antimicrobial activity test was performed against both gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria. The durability of the antimicrobial activity of cotton fabrics was tested after 10 washing cycles at 40 °C for 30 min. Tensile strength tests of the fabrics were performed to evaluate the effect of oleuropein solution pH value changes. Air permeability and whiteness values of fabrics were performed on the fabrics before and after the treatment with oleuropei