Healing wounds with hair

• Main Author: Sow, Wan Ting.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44300
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The skin is the first barrier that protects the human body from the external environment and hence it is important to explore potential wound dressings to improve wound healing on severe skin wounds. Tissue engineered scaffolds can act as an effective platform for cell adhesion and proliferation to...