Biomaterials and Technology for Skin Wound Healing

Dear Colleagues,

We are planning a Special Issue entitled “Biomaterials and Technology for Skin Wound Healing”.  

Thermal injuries constitute one the most common causes of trauma and are associated with significant physical and psychological consequences in both children and adults alike. In addition, the high case load and complexity of thermal injuries result in a significant burden on our respective health care systems. The high demands for specialized quality of care emphasize the need for selective and individualized treatment algorithms in these patients.

Over the last few years, the development of enzymatic debridement and novel skin substitute materials has evolved the treatment of burn injuries. Multiple synthetic wound dressings have been established in surgical therapy thanks to their properties of infection prevention and pain reduction, as well as fewer wound dressing changes. Decellularized fish skin has been shown to have supportive properties in the wound healing of chronic wounds and appears promising for the treatment of deep partial-thickness burn wounds. As such advances in synthetic- and biomaterials allow the implementation of more personalized treatment concepts, they further the advances in the adequate treatment of burn trauma.

This Special Issue therefore seeks a more detailed understanding of biomaterials and technology for the skin wound healing of burns and chronic wounds.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advanced experimental techniques for wound-healing-supporting biomaterials;
• Experimental investigations into the interrelationship between the biomaterial behaviors of tissue;
• Molecular and cellular biomechanics of biomaterials and technology for wound healing;
• Tissue engineering of skin substitutes;
• Applications of novel skin substitute materials in different clinical settings;
• Validation and comparison of synthetic wound dressings or decellularized skin substitutes.

Dr. Anja Miriam Boos
Guest Editor

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• synthetic wound dressings
• decellularized skin substitutes
• personalized therapy concepts
• wound healing
• burns