A method for creating a non-adhesive, water-absorbent wound dressing includes creating a mixture of monomers, crosslinker, initiator, and solvent, initiating polymerization of the monomers to begin polymerization of the monomers quenching the polymerization of the monomers when the mixture has a viscosity suitable for electrospinning electrospinning the polymer mixture to form a fibrous membrane and thereafter further polymerizing and crosslinking the fibrous membrane. The monomers are chosen from select species and, following this process, provide wound dressings that are nonadherent to a wound so as to be potentially reusable superabsorbent non-biofouling. With the addition of antimicrobial cations, the wound dressings also provide antimicrobial properties.
