Fabrication and characterization of hydrogel scaffold for epidermal skin layer

• Main Author: Liang, Yvonne Ling Min
• Other Authors: Yeong Wai Yee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/64070
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An estimated 265,000 people die from burns annually. The large majorities are from low- and middle-income countries and approximately half are from the South-East Asia region. The survival of extensive burns incidents depends on immediate treatment of burn wounds followed by proper wound coverage to...