Prevention of bacterial colonization on non-thermal atmospheric plasma treated surgical sutures for control and prevention of surgical site infections
Fig 11
XPS C1s spectra of sutures before and after NTAP treatment.
Chemical modifications caused on (A) PGLA, (B) PGA, (C) PDO and (D) PGCL sutures by 7-minute NTAP treatment was evaluated by using XPS. XPS spectra of C 1s revealed an increase in oxygen signals upon 7-minute NTAP treatment.