3D-Printed Auxetic Skin Scaffold for Decreasing Burn Wound Contractures at Jointsopen access
- Authors
- Park, Jung-Kyu; Kim, Kun Woo; Kim, Hyun Joo; Choi, Seon Young; Son, Kuk Hui; Lee, Jin Woo
- Issue Date
- Oct-2023
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- auxetic; wound contracture; skin scaffold; 3D printing; electrospinning
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL BIOMATERIALS, v.14, no.10
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL BIOMATERIALS
- Volume
- 14
- Number
- 10
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/89595
- DOI
- 10.3390/jfb14100516
- ISSN
- 2079-4983
2079-4983
- Abstract
- For patients with severe burns that consist of contractures induced by fibrous scar tissue formation, a graft must adhere completely to the wound bed to enable wound healing and neovascularization. However, currently available grafts are insufficient for scar suppression owing to their nonuniform pressure distribution in the wound area. Therefore, considering the characteristics of human skin, which is omnidirectionally stretched via uniaxial stretching, we proposed an auxetic skin scaffold with a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) for tight adherence to the skin scaffold on the wound bed site. Briefly, a skin scaffold with the NPR effect was fabricated by creating a fine pattern through 3D printing. Electrospun layers were also added to improve adhesion to the wound bed. Fabricated skin scaffolds displayed NPR characteristics (-0.5 to -0.1) based on pulling simulation and experiment. Finger bending motion tests verified the decreased marginal forces (<50%) and deformation (<60%) of the NPR scaffold. In addition, the filling of human dermal fibroblasts in most areas (>95%) of the scaffold comprising rarely dead cells and their spindle-shaped morphologies revealed the high cytocompatibility of the developed scaffold. Overall, the developed skin scaffold may help reduce wound strictures in the joints of patients with burns as it exerts less pressure on the wound margin.
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