Nahia Soto Frauskin

Visiting Student (Mondragon University, Spain)

The project focuses on the preparation and characterization of biopolymer coatings containing inorganic bioactive nanoparticles on stainless steel substrates by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) [1]. In order to endow antibacterial efficacy to the coatings, other particulate inclusions such as mesoporous bioactive glass together with essential oil will be incorporated in the composite coating. As a result, the developed multicomponent coating systems will be compared in terms of their morphological characteristics, biological and bactericidal activity, corrosion behavior, mechanical properties and in-vitro time-dependent degradation behavior.