A wound covered by an electric bandage on a rat’s skin (top left) healed faster than a wound under a control bandage (right).
Credit: American Chemical Society
Skin has a remarkable ability to heal itself. But in some cases, wounds heal very slowly or not at all, putting a person at risk for chronic pain, infection and scarring. Now, researchers have developed a self-powered bandage that generates an electric field over an injury, dramatically reducing the healing time for skin wounds in rats. They report their results in ACS Nano.
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