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Download fileElectrospinning of natural polymers for advanced wound care: towards responsive and adaptive dressings
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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School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Materials
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Journal of Materials Chemistry BVolume
4Issue
28Pages
4801 - 4812Citation
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.Publisher
© The Royal Society of ChemistryVersion
- 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
2016-06-13Publication date
2016-06-15Notes
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/c6tb00804fISSN
2050-7518eISSN
2050-750XPublisher version
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