Recent advances in novel materials and techniques for developing transparent wound dressings
Optically transparent wound dressings offer a range of potential applications in biomedical fields, as they allow for the monitoring of wound-healing progress without having to replace the dressing. These dressings must be impermeable to water and bacteria, yet permeable to moisture vapor and atmosp...
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| Published in | Journal of materials chemistry. B, Materials for biology and medicine Vol. 11; no. 27; pp. 621 - 6224 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
12.07.2023
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| Summary: | Optically transparent wound dressings offer a range of potential applications in biomedical fields, as they allow for the monitoring of wound-healing progress without having to replace the dressing. These dressings must be impermeable to water and bacteria, yet permeable to moisture vapor and atmospheric gases in order to maintain a moist environment at the wound site. This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the types of wound dressings, novel wound-dressing materials, advanced fabrication techniques for transparent wound-dressing materials, and the key features and applications of transparent dressings for the healing process, as well as how they can improve healing outcomes. This review mainly focuses on presenting specifications of transparent polymeric wound-dressing materials, such as transparent electrospun nanofibers, transparent crosslinked hydrogels, and transparent composite films/membranes. Due to the advanced properties of electrospun nanofibers, such as large surface area, efficient incorporation of antibacterial molecules, a structure similar to the extracellular matrix, and high mechanical stability, they are often used in wound-dressing applications. We also highlight hydrogels or films for wound-healing applications, and their promotion of the healing process, provision of a moist environment and pain relief through cooling and high-water content, excellent biocompatibility, and bio-biodegradability. But as hydrogels or films fabricated with a single component have low mechanical strength and stability, recent trends have offered composite or hybrid materials to achieve typical wound-dressing requirements. Advanced wound dressings with transparency, high mechanical stability, and antimicrobial functionality are becoming a popular research avenue in the wound-dressing research field. Finally, the developmental prospects of new transparent wound-dressing materials for future research are presented.
This review article provides an overview of types of wound dressings, wound-dressing materials, advanced fabrication techniques, and key features and applications of transparent dressings for the healing process, as well as how they can improve healing outcomes. |
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| Bibliography: | Muzammil Kuddushi received his PhD Degree in Chemistry from the National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Naved Malek. He worked as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2021. He is currently working as a Mitacs postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, Canada. He mainly focuses on fabricating and characterizing transparent electrospun nanofibers, films, and stimuli-responsive hydrogels for biological and environmental applications. In addition, he has received the Mitacs Accelerate Industrial Postdoc Award, RSC Researcher Mobility Award, IIT-Bombay Institute Postdoc Award, and InSc Research Excellence Award, and is an Associate Fellow of the RSC and full-time member of the Neutron Scattering Society of India. Aatif Ali Shah received his PhD degree (2021) in Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology, South Korea. He joined the University of Northern British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Fellow in July 2022. His current research focuses on membrane synthesis, seawater desalination, Janus membranes for wound dressings, water electrolysis, wastewater treatment, and electrochemical processes for hydrogen production. Professor Cagri Ayranci joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Alberta in January 2012. He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His research focuses on braided composite materials, shape-memory polymers and their composites, and additive manufacturing in the broad area of multifunctional fibrous composite materials. He also has great interest in formation of sub-micron(nano)-diameter (solid, hollow, and core-shell) fibres and fibre mats using the electro-spinning technique. A large portion of his work is dedicated to the design, manufacture, characterization and modelling of multifunctional composite materials and 4D printed materials produced using the additive manufacturing technique. Professor Xuehua Zhang holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Soft Matter and Interfaces. She earned her PhD in biomedical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. After that, she went on to become an Endeavor Postdoctoral Fellow at Australia National University, followed by an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Future Fellow position at the University of Melbourne. In 2014, she was appointed as an Associate Professor at RMIT University, and in 2017, as a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta in Canada. Professor Zhang's research interests span from microscopic bubbles and drops, evaporation of multicomponent drops, liquid-liquid phase separation, nanomaterials for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and electrospun membranes, to advanced technologies for large scale wastewater treatment. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 2050-750X 2050-7518 2050-7518 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d3tb00639e |