[HTML][HTML] Cellulose and its derivatives: towards biomedical applications

H Seddiqi, E Oliaei, H Honarkar, J Jin, LC Geonzon… - Cellulose, 2021 - Springer
Cellulose is the most abundant polysaccharide on Earth. It can be obtained from a vast
number of sources, eg cell walls of wood and plants, some species of bacteria, and algae …

Bacterial cellulose as a biodegradable food packaging material: A review

P Cazón, M Vázquez - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
The relevant presence of food packaging in our society is due to its role in food preservation
and minimizing food waste along the distribution chain. However, the high consumption of …

Bacterial cellulose in biomedical applications: A review

GF Picheth, CL Pirich, MR Sierakowski… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) derived materials represents major advances to the current
regenerative and diagnostic medicine. BC is a highly pure, biocompatible and versatile …

[HTML][HTML] Versatile application of nanocellulose: From industry to skin tissue engineering and wound healing

L Bacakova, J Pajorova, M Bacakova, A Skogberg… - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nanocellulose is cellulose in the form of nanostructures, ie, features not exceeding 100 nm
at least in one dimension. These nanostructures include nanofibrils, found in bacterial …

Bacterial cellulose-based composites for biomedical and cosmetic applications: Research progress and existing products

B Mbituyimana, L Liu, W Ye, BOO Boni, K Zhang… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a promising unique material for various biomedical and cosmetic
applications due to its morphology, mechanical strength, high purity, high water uptake, non …

[HTML][HTML] Cellulose-based nanomaterials advance biomedicine: a review

HN Abdelhamid, AP Mathew - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
There are various biomaterials, but none fulfills all requirements. Cellulose biopolymers
have advanced biomedicine to satisfy high market demand and circumvent many ecological …

Bacterial cellulose-based biomaterials: From fabrication to application

C Chen, W Ding, H Zhang, L Zhang, Y Huang… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by its excellent physical and chemical properties, BC (bacterial cellulose) has
achieved significant progress in the last decade, rendering with many novel applications …

Wound dressings from naturally-occurring polymers: A review on homopolysaccharide-based composites

M Naseri-Nosar, ZM Ziora - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Wound dressings are designed to support the wound bed and protect it from the factors that
may delay or impede its healing such as contaminations and moisture-loss, thereby …

Competitive biological activities of chitosan and its derivatives: Antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, and anti‐inflammatory activities

S Kim - International journal of polymer science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chitosan is obtained from alkaline deacetylation of chitin, and acetamide groups are
transformed into primary amino groups during the deacetylation. The diverse biological …

Bacterial cellulose as a material for wound treatment: Properties and modifications. A review

I Sulaeva, U Henniges, T Rosenau, A Potthast - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Advanced approaches to wound healing have attracted much attention in the last decades
due to the use of novel types of dressings that provide a moist environment and take an …