Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering
Key roles of the healthy human skin are to prevent bacterial infection and excessive loss of water. However, such essential roles are compromised in patients with severe burns or chronic wounds. Synthetic materials such as petrolatum gauze backings and silicone membranes are commonly used in wound d...
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| author | Ng, Wei Long Yeong, Wai Yee Naing, May Win |
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| description | Key roles of the healthy human skin are to prevent bacterial infection and excessive loss of water. However, such essential roles are compromised in patients with severe burns or chronic wounds. Synthetic materials such as petrolatum gauze backings and silicone membranes are commonly used in wound dressings to improve its mechanical properties and temporarily restore the role of the damaged skin. These synthetic materials are usually non-biodegradable and subsequent removal of such temporary wound dressings from the wound site is necessary. This necessitates the development of biodegradable films for skin tissue engineering. Although solvent casting is a simple fabrication technique for such films, properties such as mechanical strength and water transmission rate cannot be easily controlled via solvent casting technique. In this paper, a bioprinting approach will be explored for the fabrication of films for skin wound healing. The potential of such bioprinted films for skin tissue engineering is highlighted. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/842242020-09-24T20:12:00Z Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering Ng, Wei Long Yeong, Wai Yee Naing, May Win School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2014) A*STAR SIMTech Singapore Centre for 3D Printing Key roles of the healthy human skin are to prevent bacterial infection and excessive loss of water. However, such essential roles are compromised in patients with severe burns or chronic wounds. Synthetic materials such as petrolatum gauze backings and silicone membranes are commonly used in wound dressings to improve its mechanical properties and temporarily restore the role of the damaged skin. These synthetic materials are usually non-biodegradable and subsequent removal of such temporary wound dressings from the wound site is necessary. This necessitates the development of biodegradable films for skin tissue engineering. Although solvent casting is a simple fabrication technique for such films, properties such as mechanical strength and water transmission rate cannot be easily controlled via solvent casting technique. In this paper, a bioprinting approach will be explored for the fabrication of films for skin wound healing. The potential of such bioprinted films for skin tissue engineering is highlighted. ASTAR (Agency for Sci., Tech. and Research, S’pore) Published version 2016-12-07T05:20:08Z 2019-12-06T15:40:53Z 2016-12-07T05:20:08Z 2019-12-06T15:40:53Z 2014 Conference Paper Ng, W. L., Yeong, W. Y., & Naing, M. W. (2014). Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2014), 441-446. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84224 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41731 10.3850/978-981-09-0446-3_065 en © 2014 by Research Publishing Services. 6 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Ng, Wei Long Yeong, Wai Yee Naing, May Win Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title | Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title_full | Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title_fullStr | Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title_short | Potential of Bioprinted Films for Skin Tissue Engineering |
| title_sort | potential of bioprinted films for skin tissue engineering |
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