An environmentally friendly wound dressing based on a self-healing, extensible and compressible antibacterial hydrogel

Abstract

A self-healing wound dressing hydrogel is prepared through Schiff-base cross-linking between oxidized salep (OSa) and ethylene diamine-modified salep (SaHEA) as first network and physical cross-linking of PVA <italic>via</italic> freezing-thawing as the second network.