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Emerging Techniques in the Preparation of Wound Care Products

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Numerous methods have been utilised to fabricate scaffolds with varying mechanical properties, suitable also to be used in wound care, for instance, conventional techniques, which include solvent casting and particle leaching, freeze-drying, thermally induced phase separation, gas foaming, and the sol–gel technique [1].

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    Tina Maver, Tanja Pivec, Manja Kurečič, Zdenka Persin & Karin Stana Kleinschek

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    Uroš Maver

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Maver, T., Maver, U., Pivec, T., Kurečič, M., Persin, Z., Stana Kleinschek, K. (2018). Emerging Techniques in the Preparation of Wound Care Products. In: Bioactive Polysaccharide Materials for Modern Wound Healing. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89608-3_3

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