Muhammad Zahoor - Department of Pharmacy, Quaid i azam university, Islamabad, Pakistan
Rabia Arshad - Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Lahore
Narges Ajalli - School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abass Rahdar - Department of physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
Syed Nisar Hussain Shah - Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Lahore
Kashif Barkat - Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Lahore

Current wound dressings may lack safety and efficacy our objective was to address these concerns by synthesizing a novel antimicrobial dressing containing an antiseptic drug along with silver nanoparticles that itself possess strong antimicrobial activity used for the prevention of wound infections. The physiochemical characterization includes FTIR and TEM studies. FTIR studies reveal that no chemical interaction is present between the ingredients of the formulation. We can clearly see the round structure of blank silver nanoparticles and drug-loaded silver nanoparticles which clearly suggest the uniformity of the formulation. In vitro release studies are also performed on the release of formulation at PH ۵.۵ was about ۷۸ percent of the drug is released in a controlled manner and in PH ۷.۴ the release of the drug occurs about ۵۰ percent.

Chitosan, Wound Dressing, Nanocomposite, Silver