Evaluation of a technology to obtain hydrogel membranes for the recovering of wounds

The field of biomaterials has advanced rapidly in the past century, mainly as a result of attempts to replace body tissues. One of the most promising classes of materials for biomedical applications seems to be the hydrogels. The research team of Dr Rosiak from the Technical University of Lodz, Poland developed a technology to obtain these hydrogel membranes by gamma or beam irradiation. The aim of this work was to evaluate this technology in an Irradiator GAMMACELL-500 with a radioactive source of Co-60. The process of hydrogel development, the formulation of components, the determination of the irradiation dose and the reticulation parameters were studied. As a result, the methodology to obtain the hydrogel membranes was established applying a 25 KGy dose. There were established the process controls and the quality specifications of the product. Besides there were designed the main container of the hydrogel membranes