Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a new type of hydrogel that promotes healing of burn wounds

Bioengineers at Massachusetts General Hospital have recently developed an advanced hydrogel that promotes wound healing from second-degree burns and dissolves quickly and easily during dressing changes, minimizing pain and trauma
in patients.

The findings were published in the journal Bioactive Materials on
September 27.

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"In collaboration with Tufts University, our team set out to develop a supramolecular hydrogel that dissolves on demand and is quickly removed by doctors, reducing the need for analgesics and opioids, as well as length of hospital stay and expense
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The material, called Supramolecular Mixed Hydrogel (SHH), can be applied directly to the wound and then covered
with gauze or a protective dressing.

The unique feature of supramolecular mixed hydrogel is that it can dissolve
quickly in less than 5 minutes.

In addition, the protective wound barrier can be assembled in about 15 seconds, which is a much shorter time compared to existing hydrogels
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Another advantage of this groundbreaking burn dressing is its ease of adaptation to the consumer market
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The researchers believe that supramolecular hybrid hydrogels can not only be used as burn wound dressings, but can be used in a wider range of biomedical engineering fields in the future, such as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and biopreservation
.

Funding for the study was provided
in part by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and Shriners Hospital.

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Supramolecular hybrid hydrogels as rapidly on-demand dissoluble, self-healing, and biocompatible burn dressings