title: A review on polymeric hydrogel membranes for wound dressing applications: PVA-based hydrogel dressings.
abstract: This review presents the past and current efforts with a brief description on the featured properties of hydrogel membranes fabricated from biopolymers and synthetic ones for wound dressing applications. Many endeavors have been exerted during past ten years for developing new artificial polymeric membranes, which fulfill the demanded conditions for the treatment of skin wounds. This review mainly focuses on representing specifications of ideal polymeric wound dressing membranes, such as crosslinked hydrogels compatible with wound dressing purposes. But as the hydrogels with single component have low mechanical strength, recent trends have offered composite or hybrid hydrogel membranes to achieve the typical wound dressing requirements.
authors.affiliation: Polymeric Materials Research Department, Advanced Technology and New Materials Research Institute (ATNMRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City), New Borg Al-Arab City 21934, Alexandria, Egypt.
authors.forename: Elbadawy A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kamoun
authors.affiliation: Polymer Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tanta, Tanta 31527, Egypt.
authors.forename: El-Refaie S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Kenawy
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: Biomedical applications; Hydrogels; Membranes; Skin substituent; Wound dressings