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A Facile Approach towards Fabrication of Electrospun Nanofibrous Mats based Multicompartment Wound Dressing Fabric

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We have designed an efficient wound dressing fabric consisting of physically attached multicompartment (three layers) electrospun nanofibrous mats. Electrospining technique enables abundant porosity and large surface area into the fabric, ensuring enhanced water absorption and cell respiration purposes. Blend of water insoluble, biocompatible, antifungal, bactericidal, and glutinous chitosan with flexible polyethylene oxide (PEO) and herbomettalic mica has been used as the inner layer. Oxygen permeable, tissue compatible, and flexible thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) has been used as the outer layer. Using some facile chemical approaches, blends of natural polysaccharide pullulan/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and in situ polymerized poly (acrylic acid-co-acrylamide)/PVA have been synthesized to fabricate the superabsorbent polymeric materials (SPM) based middle layers of the No. 1 and No. 2 dressings, respectively. The blend ratio, solution viscosity, and electrospinning conditions (i.e., voltage, injection rate, tip-to-collector distance, etc.) have been optimized to prepare each layers of the desired fabrics. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images, water uptake measurements, and mechanical and thermal properties have been considered to characterize the fabric properties. Because of the more polar functional groups (i.e., -COOH, -CONH2, and -OH) and more crosslinking within the middle layer by glutaraldehyde, No. 2 fabric shows excellent mechanical property (i.e., tensile strength of > 11 MPa), faster (110 seconds) and higher (95%) fluid absorption efficacy, and better reusability (only 16% of water retention after drying for 7 days at room temperature) than No. 1 fabric. No. 1 fabric, in contrast, mainly consisting of H-bonding among the polymers having only -OH functional group, shows < 10 MPa of tensile strength, 75% fluid absorption within 150 seconds and poor reusability (27% of water retention).

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  1. T. K. Sinha and H. Li have equally contributed to this work.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, School of Polymer Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China

    Qi Chen & Wenbo Li

  2. Department of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, 501 Jinju-daero, Jinju, 52828, Korea

    Tridib K. Sinha, Huan Li & Jin Kuk Kim

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Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Gyeongsang National University Fund for Professors on Sabbatical Leave, 2017 and Materials and Components Technology Development Program of MOTIE/KEIT (10067683, Development of Manufacturing Technology of High Barrier Elastomeric Material).

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Chen, Q., Sinha, T.K., Li, H. et al. A Facile Approach towards Fabrication of Electrospun Nanofibrous Mats based Multicompartment Wound Dressing Fabric. Macromol. Res. 26, 1265–1272 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13233-019-7028-1

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