With the thought and strong hope of uniqueness and challenging characteristic highlights and importance of nanofibrous mats (NFMs) along with cyclodextrins (CDs) that having a significant opportunity, chances and handling a vital role in hostile to bacterial activities. For the most part, CDs are utilized to upgrade the antibacterial activity through the improvement of solubility, stability, and etc., to any molecule which can bring inside the CDs cavity via the formation of inclusion complexes. Polymer-mediated electrospun nanofibrous mats (PAN NFMs) are utilized as a nanocarrier for antibacterial activity in this article, utilizing nortriptyline (NP) as a reference molecule. As a result, NP forms an inclusion complex with β-Cyclodextrin (β-CD). As a result, the PAN NFMs are able to absorb it, thereby consolidating the complex NP on the nanofibrous surface. Additionally, the soaking of PAN NFMs in NP solution without β-CD was performed for comparison. To characterize the nanofibrous mats of NP/PAN and NP:β-CD-ICs/PAN NFMs, UV absorption, FTIR, Raman, XRD, and SEM techniques were used. The antibacterial activity of NP and NP:β-CD-ICs have been tried against positive control antibiotics by the disc diffusion method. Thus, the action has been improved for NP:β-CD-ICs/PAN NFMs over NP/PAN NFMs because of the solubility upgraded for the NP by the complexation of β-CD.
Keywords: Nortriptyline; antibacterial activity; electrospun PAN nanofiber; soaking process; supramolecular assembly.