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Electrospinning of natural polymers for advanced wound care: towards responsive and adaptive dressings

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posted on 2016-11-17, 13:25 authored by Elisa MeleElisa Mele
In the last few years, the health-care services have registered worldwide an increased number of patients suffering from chronic wounds and ulcers, which are mainly associated with diabetes, obesity and cancer. The need for regenerating rapidly and effectively the injured skin has stimulated the research of advanced therapies for wound care. This review will discuss how biomimetic architectures produced by electrospinning natural biopolymers fulfil most of the requirements of ideal wound dressings. It will also examine the recent progress in the area of portable electrospinning systems and of multiscale instructive materials that integrate stimuli responsive and sensing elements.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Published in

Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Volume

4

Issue

28

Pages

4801 - 4812

Citation

MELE, E., 2016. Electrospinning of natural polymers for advanced wound care: towards responsive and adaptive dressings. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4 (28), pp. 4801-4812.

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© The Royal Society of Chemistry

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-06-13

Publication date

2016-06-15

Notes

This article was published in the journal Journal of Materials Chemistry B [© Royal Society of Chemistry] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6tb00804f

ISSN

2050-7518

eISSN

2050-750X

Language

  • en

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