The preparation of functional intelligent wound dressing membranes with features including: excellent dimensional stability in both dry and hydrated states, preserving a moist environment over the wounded area by self-adjustment of their permeability in response to wound moisture level, a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity towards different microorganisms, promising antioxidant (radical scavenging) efficiency and significant activity for stimulation of fibroblast cells growth and proliferation is reported in this work. For the preparation of dressing membranes, NCO-terminated polyurethane prepolymers and a CHO-terminated aniline tetramer are functionalized with silane groups. Polyurethane/siloxane networks are prepared through a sol-gel reaction of these components at different weight ratios. The corresponding nanosilver composites are simply prepared by a redox reaction through impregnating the membranes with a silver salt solution. Based on various in vitro tests, it is revealed that some of the prepared membranes have the basic characteristics of ideal dressings, while they can actively alleviate the healing of tissue in the wounded area. View Article Onlinea According to analysis of variances P-values of <0.05 were considered signicant. The difference between quantities with similar superscripts is not signicant (p $ 0.05) for data of each column.This journal is

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Preparation of efficient polyurethane-type wound dressings with tunable physicomechanical properties and widespread antimicrobial activity is considered in this work. A new type of soybean oil-based polyol with built-in urethane and quaternary ammonium groups is synthesized through a nonisocyanate route using carbonated soybean oil as an environmentally friendly, renewable resource-based raw material. Different formulations from this polyol and castor oil are prepared and converted to the polyurethane wound dressings via a reaction with isophorone diisocyanate. The dressing sample, with good cytocompatibility and efficient antimicrobial activity against various microbial strains, having tensile strength of 5 and 17 MPa at hydrated and dry state, elongation at the break of up to 400%, equilibrium water absorption and a water vapor transmission rate of 50% and 390 g m−2 day−1, is used for in vivo assay on a rat. Evaluation of the optimized dressing for a full-thickness non-sterilized wound has shown excellent progress of wound healing, since the tensile strength of regenerated skin reaches about 80% of normal healthy skin on day 21 after wounding. This has been significantly superior to the tensile strength of the regenerated skin of rats covered with non-antibacterial (∼50%) and cotton gauze (∼40%) dressings as blank and control groups.

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