Transparent photothermal hydrogels for wound visualization and accelerated healing.

ABSTRACT: Utilizing photothermal hydrogels as a wound dressing is a promising strategy to accelerate wound healing. Usually, a photothermal hydrogel has a strong light-absorbing capability, and hence its transparency can be largely sacrificed, which is unbeneficial for the visual monitoring of wound states. It remains challenging to balance the trade-off between the photothermal conversion and wound visualization for the photothermal hydrogel dressing. Herein, a composite photothermal hydrogel film with high transparency is presented for the visual monitor of the wound, which is constructed by incorporating Cs_xWO₃ nanorods into the networks of polyacrylamide hydrogels. The composite photothermal hydrogel film exhibits high light absorption in the near-infrared region and high t

SUBMITTER: Xie G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11197513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature