Design of novel sheet-shaped chitosan hydrogel for wound healing: A hybrid biomaterial consisting of both PEG-grafted chitosan and crosslinkable polymeric micelles acting as drug containers

A review of bioactive plant polysaccharides: Biological activities, functionalization, and biomedical applications

“…Graft copolymerization is an important approach for modification of the chitin and chitosan towards medical and pharmaceutical applications, such as in orthopedic/ periodontal materials, wound-dressing materials, tissue engineering, and controlled drug/gene delivery (Ito, Yoshida, & Murakami, 2013). Graft copolymerization of chitin and chitosan can be initiated by chemical (free radicals) initiator systems, by radiation methods and by enzymatic grafting methods (Alves & Mano, 2008).…”

p(AAm/TA)‐based IPN hydrogel films with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties for biomedical applications

“…Hydrogels, that swell in aqueous medium, can be considered soft and flexible, viscoelastic crosslinked materials and possess appropriate physical properties for wound healing dressing applications . Interpenetrating polymeric networks (IPN) have two independent polymers forming intertwined networks and are prepared by nonintervening polymerization and crosslinking.…”

Research on a novel poly (vinyl alcohol)/lysine/vanillin wound dressing: Biocompatibility, bioactivity and antimicrobial activity

“…Hydrogels made from natural materials, such as alginate [10], chitosan [11] and collagen [12], used to be applied to wound healing due to their biocompatibility [13] and biodegradability [14]. However, these hydrogel dressings were limited because of their relative low mechanical properties.…”