A tough, antibacterial and antioxidant hydrogel dressing accelerates wound healing and suppresses hypertrophic scar formation in infected wounds.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This work was supported by the 10.13039/100022805Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering (2021SZ-TD004), the 10.13039/501100004731Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LD21E030001), the Joint Fund of 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (U22A20155), and the Lingyan Program of Zhejiang Province (2022C01106). Xiaoqing Liu: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Yiming Sun: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Jie Wang: Methodology, Investigation. Yongyuan Kang: Methodology, Investigation. Zhaolong Wang: Investigation. Wangbei Cao: Methodology. Juan Ye: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Conceptualization. Changyou Gao: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Resources, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization."