A review on electrospun polymeric nanofibers and antibacterial wound dressing

Wound healing is important in medicine so that the development in this area can affect a major impact on quality of patient life. Using suitable dressing is one of the effective role in wound healing. In recent years, new generation of wound dressing are developed. However, fewer dressing has complete requirement of wound healing. Recently, electrospun polymeric nanofibers is widely considered due to their unique properties in wound dressing and healing. Electrospinning has been widely used as a nanofiber fabrication technique. Polymeric nanofibers with different morphologies and dimensions can be obtained from electrospinning method. This report gives us an overview of some recent advances of electrospinning, fabrication of polymeric nanofibers and their application in wound healing. First, we briefly discuss the wound healing process then the electrospinning process and fabrication of electrospun nanofibers are investigated. Finally, nanofibers in combination with others nanomaterials and their application in wound dressing and antibacterial properties are studied.