Cyanine-Doped Nanofiber Mats for Laser Tissue Bonding.

ABSTRACT: In spite of an extensive body of academic initiatives and innovative products, the toolkit of wound dressing has always revolved around a few common concepts such as adhesive patches and stitches and their variants. Our work aims at an alternative solution for an immediate restitutio ad integrum of the mechanical functionality in cutaneous repairs. We describe the fabrication and the application of electrospun mats of bioactive nanofibers all made of biocompatible components such as a natural polysaccharide and a cyanine dye for use as laser-activatable plasters, resembling the ultrastructure of human dermis. In particular, we investigate their morphological features and mechanical moduli under conditions of physiological relevance, and we test their use to bind a frequent benchmark of con

SUBMITTER: Ratto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9105542 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature