Development of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Based Systems for Wound Dressings

IFMBE Proceedings. Vol.20: 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC 2008) 2008
Jolanta Staško, Mārtiņš Kalniņš, Anda Dzene, Velta Tupureina

Poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels are of special interest for the application in medicine (mainly for therapeutic systems) due to their biocompatibility and excellent ability to absorb water. The water absorption of different gels prepared by freezing/thawing method was studied in the presented work.

Keywords
Poly(vinyl alcohol) - gels - water absorption, polivinilspirts, gēls, ūdens absorbcija
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-69367-3_22
Hyperlink
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-69367-3_22

Staško, J., Kalniņš, M., Dzene, A., Tupureina, V. Development of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Based Systems for Wound Dressings. In: IFMBE Proceedings. Vol.20: 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC 2008), Latvia, Rīga, 16-20 June, 2008. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, pp.80-82. ISBN 9783540693666.

Publication language
English (en)