Advanced Fiber Materials, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 00463(2024)

Toughening and Responsive Contractile Shape Memory Fibrous Membrane via Water for Mechanically Active Wound Dressing

Wen Liu1... Wei Zhao2, Kunrong Xie3, Xue Feng Li3, Yufu Wang3, Deyan Kong4, Yanju Liu2 and Jinsong Leng1,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology On Advanced Composites in Special Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Department of Astronautical Science and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), No. 92 West Dazhi Street, P.O. Box 301, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, No. 246, Baojian Road, Harbin 150086, People’s Republic of China
  • 4MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92, West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
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    Conventional wound dressings only protect passively against bacterial infection. Emerging mechanically active adhesive dressings (AADs) are inspired by the active closure of embryonic wounds. It can promote wound healing by actively contracting the wound bed. AADs meet the requirements of high toughness, stimulus–response, and dynamic adhesion properties, which are challenging. Hence, we construct a water-responsive shape memory polyurea fibrous membrane (PU-fm) featuring favorable toughness, wet-adhesion, breathability, absorbency of four times its weight, and antibacterial. First, the water-toughened electrospun PU-fm is fabricated using a homemade polyurea (PU) elastomer with multistage hydrogen bond networks as a spinning solution. Furthermore, a Janus-structured polyurea-polydopamine-silver fibrous membrane (PU@PDA@Ag-fm) is engineered, integrating antibacterial properties without compromising mechanical robustness. It demonstrates strong adhesion to the skin, actively promotes wound contraction, and enables adaptive wrapping of tissues of varying sizes by the water-driven shape memory effect. Antibacterial tests and wound healing experiments indicate that the PU@PDA@Ag-fm has favorable antibacterial properties against Escherichia coli (E.coli) and accelerates the wound healing rate by 20%. For the first time, water-responsive shape memory PU-fm as the AADs is constructed, providing a new strategy for wound management. This can be extended to applications in other smart devices for biomedicine such as tendon repair, and bioelectronic interfaces.

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    Wen Liu, Wei Zhao, Kunrong Xie, Xue Feng Li, Yufu Wang, Deyan Kong, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng. Toughening and Responsive Contractile Shape Memory Fibrous Membrane via Water for Mechanically Active Wound Dressing[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2024, 6(6): 00463

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Mar. 15, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 23, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Leng Jinsong (lengjs@hit.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s42765-024-00463-z

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