Hydrogel Membranes for Skin Regeneration

Abstract

The application of wearable hydrogel wound patches has great potential in advancing the field of medicine. However, for high reach and large-scale utilization, the fabrication process of wearable hydrogel wound patches needs to be low-cost, reliable, and have high throughput. Therefore, the incorporation of 3D-printing technology helps provide a starting point for flexible, high throughput, mechanically enhanced, low-cost, and reliable antibacterial wound patches. Here, we also incorporated the use of auxetic structures to help facilitate the adhesion to different surface shapes. Our patch can perform antibacterial behavior while exhibiting a fast fabrication process in a time range of fewer than 3 hours. The fabricated patch exhibited good water retention, water vapor transmission rate a porosity values indicating that it has a promising potential to be commercialized as a wound patch.

Date of Award	Dec 2022
Original language	American English
Supervisor	Haider Butt (Supervisor)