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Recent Advancements in Smart Bandages for Wound Healing

  • Ventaka Ramesh Ragnaboina (KU-KIST Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University) ;
  • Tae-Min Jang (KU-KIST Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University) ;
  • Sungkeun Han (KU-KIST Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University) ;
  • Suk-Won Hwang (KU-KIST Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University)
  • Received : 2023.11.06
  • Accepted : 2023.11.28
  • Published : 2023.11.30
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Abstract

Wound healing is a complex and dynamic process, making the accurate and timely assessment of skin wounds a crucial aspect of effective wound care management, especially for chronic wounds. Unlike conventional wound dressings that simply cover the wound area once some form of medicine is administered onto the wound, recent studies have introduced versatile approaches to smart wound dressings capable of interacting with wound fluids to monitor physicochemical and pathological parameters to determine the wound healing status. Such electrochemical wound dressings can be integrated with on-demand, closed-loop drug delivery or stimulation systems and ultimately expanded into an ideal technological platform for the prevention, treatment, and management of skin wounds or illnesses. This article briefly reviews the wound healing mechanism and recent strategies for effective wound care management. Specifically, this review discusses the following aspects of smart wound dressings: sensor-integrated smart bandages to detect wound biomarkers, smart bandages developed to accelerate wound healing, and wireless, closed-loop automatic (on-demand) wound healing systems. This review concludes by providing future perspectives on effective wound care management.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the KIST Institutional Program (Project No.2E32501-23-106) and the KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology Program, the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (the Ministry of Science, ICT, MSIT) (RS-2022-00165524), the development of technologies for electroceuticals of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (RS-2023-00220534), and the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea, under the ICT Creative Consilience program (IITP-2023-2020-0-01819) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation).

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