Jungkyu Park

Mr. Jungkyu Park

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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JPJungkyu Park
Jungkyu Park
KKKun Woo Kim
Kun Woo Kim
HKHyun Joo Kim
Hyun Joo Kim
SCSeon Young Choi
Seon Young Choi
KSKuk Hui Son
Kuk Hui Son
Jin Woo LeeJin Woo Lee
Jin Woo Lee
For patients with severe burns that consist of contractures induced by fibrous scar tissue formation, a graft must adhere completely to the wound bed to enable wound healing and neovascularization. However, currently available grafts are insufficient for scar suppression owing to their nonuniform pressure distribution in the wound area. Therefore, considering the characteristics of human skin, which is omnidirectionally stretched via uniaxial stretching, we proposed an auxetic skin scaffold with a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) for tight adherence to the skin scaffold on the wound bed site. Briefly, a skin scaffold with the NPR effect was fabricated by creating a fine pattern through 3D printing. Electrospun layers were also added to improve adhesion to the wound bed. Fabricated skin scaffolds displayed NPR characteristics (−0.5 to −0.1) based on pulling simulation and experiment. Finger bending motion tests verified the decreased marginal forces (<50%) and deformation (95%) of the scaffold comprising rarely dead cells and their spindle-shaped morphologies revealed the high cytocompatibility of the developed scaffold. Overall, the developed skin scaffold may help reduce wound strictures in the joints of patients with burns as it exerts less pressure on the wound margin.