Nanofiber unique characteristics and potential applications offer innovative strategies and
opportunities for sustainable energy production, and for creative solutions to biomedical …

Chronic wound healing is an intricate time-consuming process (healing time∼ 12 weeks),
susceptible to external biological attack such as bacteria (eg E. coli, B. subtilis, S. aureus …

Electrospun nanofibrous mats based on biopolymers have been widely investigated for
tissue engineering in recent years, primarily due to remarkable morphological similarity to …

Abstract Chitin (CT), the well-known natural biopolymer and chitosan (CS)(bio-based or
“artificial polymer”) are non-toxic, biodegradable and biocompatible in nature. The …

Chitin and chitosan are biopolymers with excellent bioactive properties, such as
biodegradability, non‐toxicity, biocompatibility, haemostatic activity and antimicrobial …

Effective bleeding control and wound healing are very important and can be life saving.
However, traditional wound dressings with structural deficiencies are not effective in …

Since its discovery approximately 200 years ago, chitosan, as a cationic natural polymer,
has been widely used as a topical dressing in wound management owing to its hemostatic …

Current strategies to treat chronic wounds offer limited relief to the 7.75 million patients who
suffer from burns or chronic skin ulcers. Thus, as long as chronic wounds remain a global …

Since ancient times, wound dressings have experienced many significant improvements.
Evolution began using natural materials to merely cover wounds and advanced to used …

Electrospinning is a process that produces continuous polymer fibers with diameters of a
nanometric scale. Nylon 6 in formic acid was electrospun to obtain the nanofibers. Fibers …