Table 2:

A few examples of hydrogel-based dressings and regenerative templates investigated in recent literature for the treatment of partial- and full-thickness burns, respectively

Burn depth	Hydrogel precursor(s)	Additional component(s)	Reference(s)
Partial-thickness	AMPS/PEGDA	—	[20]
	AMPS	Silver nanoparticles	[27],[36],[37]
	Chitin	ZnO nanoparticles	[29],[30]
	Chitosan	—	[15],[38]
	Keratin	—	[39]
	Laponite®/alginate (*)	Mafenide	[40]
	PVA/chitosan	Silver sulfadiazine	[28],[41]
	PVA	Silver nanoparticles	[42]
	PVA/lysine/vanillin	—	[43]
	PVP/PEG	Honey	[44]
	PVP/PEG	Sea cucumber	[45]
	Self-assembling peptides	—	[46],[47]
Full-thickness	Chitosan	—	[25]
	Chitosan/collagen	Lysostaphin	[31]
	Collagen/PEG/fibrin	—	[48]
	Dextran/PEGDA	—	[49]
	Dextran	Chitosan microparticles with EGF and VEGF	[50]
	Hyaluronan	—	[51]
	Hyaluronan/gelatin/PEGDA (Extracel®)	—	[52]

AMPS = 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid sodium salt, PEGDA = polyethylene glycol diacrylate, PVA = Polyvinyl alcohol, PVP = Polyvinyl pyrrolidone, PEG = polyethylene glycol, EGF = epidermal growth factor, VEGF = vascular endothelial growth factor, (*) Laponite is a gel forming clay