Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Wound Healing

Dear Colleagues,

Skin wound healing is a global health problem and the cure of wound infections is currently a high unmet clinical need. Uncured wounds are a relevant problem among patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and immunodeficiency, because, due to their physiological peculiarities, the wound healing process is disrupted, and the unhealed wounds are often infected and multicolonized by different bacteria including biofilm forming bacteria. Unhealed wounds also lead to additional healthcare costs, and decrease the patient’s quality of life and life expectancy. Hence, the problem of wound healing is unsolved and requires new solutions.

Various nanotechnologies and nanomaterials offer innovative alternative solutions to this problem. New materials are required to fight hospital-associated infections causing pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant bacteria that impair the wound healing process. Materials comprising hydrocolloids, fiber technologies, nanoscaffolds, and advanced fiber technologies, such as nanofibers and textiles impregnated with antibacterial agents or coated with (metal) nanoparticles, are paving the way for new avenues for antibacterial wound care. Nanostructures with different morphologies, consisting of biodegradable materials and ecologically safe solutions, are forming the future of technologies for wound healing.

The goal of proposing the Special Issue “Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Wound Healing” is to provide the scientific community with a way to demonstrate new approaches for developing materials to fight wound infections, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and pathogenic fungi through new mechanisms of antimicrobial activity, by tuning biomaterials to enable better efficacy and safer outcomes.

Dr. Anna-Liisa Kubo
Dr. Kaja Kasemets
Guest Editors

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• wound infection management
• chronic wound
• hospital-associated infections
• antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• antimicrobial agents
• nanomaterials
• biomaterials
• advanced nanotechnologies