A review of research on chitin- and chitosan-based materials studied for wound dressings (descriptive only).
Built / tested: dressing materials
As reported in: Jayakumar, Prabaharan, Sudheesh Kumar et al. (2011). Biomaterials based on chitin and chitosan in wound dressing applications. Biotechnology Advances. doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2011.01.005
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Made porous 3D silk sponges using a water-based process, as scaffolds for tissue research (descriptive only).
Built / tested: porous scaffolds
As reported in: Kim, Park, Joo Kim et al. (2005). Three-dimensional aqueous-derived biomaterial scaffolds from silk fibroin. Biomaterials. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.07.044
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Described bacterial cellulose tubes (sold under the name BASYC) and reported their testing as small artificial blood vessels in rat experiments (descriptive only).
Built / tested: bacterial cellulose tubes
As reported in: Klemm, Schumann, Udhardt et al. (2001). Bacterial synthesized cellulose — artificial blood vessels for microsurgery. Progress in Polymer Science. doi:10.1016/s0079-6700(01)00021-1
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