Carl Freudenberg Kg

Bernd Schlesselmann

Robert Groten

Denis Reibel

Wiebke Schmitz

Marc Pehr

Gunter Scharfenberger

Julia Schmidt

Thomas Hofbauer

Birger Lange

Gerhard Schoepping

Katharina Krampfl

Katharina Ellmer

Birthe Lang

Samuel Duncker-Rakow

Jean-Francois Kerhault

Valentina Mass

A wound cleaning product is described as used for sterile debridement of wounds. The wound cleaning product comprises a composite material having a foam layer and a fiber layer arranged on a surface of the foam layer. The fiber layer is at least partially thermally solidified, and the foam layer and the fiber layer are connected to one another by needling such that fibers of the fiber layer have penetrated into the foam layer and form capillary channels that extend from the fiber layer into the foam layer.

Wound cleaning product

A plurality of fibers or one-dimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional fibrous structures are provided, having fibers from a first raw fiber material. The first raw fiber material contains unsubstituted or partially substituted polyvinyl alcohol and/or unsubstituted or partially substituted polyvinyl alcohol copolymer. The fibers can be crosslinked by tempering the fibers or fibrous structures, with the result that the fibers or the fibrous structure are configured to be gel, in particular hydrogel, fibers or fibrous structures and have excellent stability.

Hydrogel fibers and fibrous structures

Fibers or one-dimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional fibrous structures configured to be hydrogelling, produced from fibers made of a first fiber raw material, whereby the first fiber raw material contains water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol and/or polyvinyl alcohol copolymer, whereby the hydrogelling configuration of the fibers or fibrous structures is achieved by tempering the fiber raw material at a predetermined tempering temperature that is preferably higher than the glass transition temperature and/or lower than the melting or decomposition temperature of the first fiber raw material employed, as well as by tempering for a predetermined tempering duration, and whereby the fiber raw material is cross-linked by the tempering.

Hydrogelling fibers and fibrous structures

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