Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

In-situ growth of robust superlubricated nano-skin on electrospun nanofibers for post-operative adhesion prevention

  • Yi Wang,
  • Yuanhang Xu,
  • Weijie Zhai,
  • Zhinan Zhang,
  • Yuhong Liu,
  • Shujie Cheng,
  • Hongyu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32804-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Post-operative adhesions are a major complication from surgical intervention. Here, the authors develop a technique to grow a super-lubricating layer over electrospun nanofibers which was demonstrated to prevent postoperative adhesions with better outcomes than commercial products when compared in two in vivo models.