Fabrication and Characterization of a Stretchable Sodium Alginate Hydrogel Patch Combined with Silicon Nitride and Metalized Halloysite Nanotubes to Develop a Chronic Wound Healing Treatment.

The human body is known as a responsive healing machine, but sometimes, broken bones do not heal, especially if a bacterial infection is present. The present study describes the fabrication and characterization of a nanocomposite hydrogel patch incorporated with silicon nitride and magnesium oxide (MgO) deposited on the halloysite nanotube (HNT) surface using a facile and inexpensive electrodeposition coating process. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to observe the surface morphology of the MgO/HNT surface coating and the nanocomposite patch.