“…Novel polymer-based biomaterials in the form of surgical membranes, meshes and dressings are being developed for biomedical use in tissue engineering (Zhang, Zhang, Shi, & Miron, 2013), for the treatment of topical wounds and burns (Okamura et al, 2013;Plettig et al, 2014;Vasile, Pieptu, Dumitriu, Panzariu, & Profire, 2013;Xu et al, 2015), for the repair of hernias (Beale, Hoxworth, Livingston, & Trussler, 2012;Novitsky, 2013) and for the development of haemostatic devices (Granville-Chapman, Jacobs, & Midwinter, 2011;Smith, Laird, Porter, & Bloch, 2013;Gaharwar et al, 2014;Ohta et al, 2014). In the field of wound treatment, membranes based on both natural and synthetic polymers have been reported (Khil, Cha, Kim, Kim, & Bhattarai, 2003;Sionkowska, 2011).…”