Bacterial cellulose: Molecular regulation of biosynthesis, supramolecular assembly, and tailored structural and functional properties

S Manan, MW Ullah, M Ul-Islam, Z Shi… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the different types of nanocellulose being investigated, bacterial cellulose (BC) or
bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is receiving tremendous attention due to its purity and …

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 …

Overview of bacterial cellulose composites: a multipurpose advanced material

N Shah, M Ul-Islam, WA Khattak, JK Park - Carbohydrate polymers, 2013 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) has received substantial interest owing to its unique structural
features and impressive physico-mechanical properties. BC has a variety of applications in …

Recent advances in bacterial cellulose

Y Huang, C Zhu, J Yang, Y Nie, C Chen, D Sun - Cellulose, 2014 - Springer
Bacterial cellulose (BC) produced by some microorganisms has been widely accepted as a
multifunctional nano-biomaterial. It is composed of linear glucan molecules attached with …

Strategies for cost-effective and enhanced production of bacterial cellulose

MU Islam, MW Ullah, S Khan, N Shah… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) has received substantial attention because of its high purity,
mechanical strength, crystallinity, liquid-absorbing capabilities, biocompatibility, and …

Biosynthesis, production and applications of bacterial cellulose

SP Lin, I Loira Calvar, JM Catchmark, JR Liu, A Demirci… - Cellulose, 2013 - Springer
Bacterial cellulose (BC) as a never-dried biopolymer synthesized in abundance by
Gluconacetobacter xylinus is in a pure form which requires no intensive processing to …

Nanocellulose as a sustainable biomass material: structure, properties, present status and future prospects in biomedical applications

Y Xue, Z Mou, H Xiao - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocellulose, extracted from the most abundant biomass material cellulose, has proved to
be an environmentally friendly material with excellent mechanical performance owing to its …

Enhancement of the fermentation process and properties of bacterial cellulose: a review

C Campano, A Balea, A Blanco, C Negro - Cellulose, 2016 - Springer
Cellulose produced by bacteria (BC) has attracted increasing interest in view of its superior
properties with respect to nanofibrillar structure, high purity and biocompatibility. Despite the …

Production of bacterial cellulose from alternative cheap and waste resources: A step for cost reduction with positive environmental aspects

M Ul-Islam, MW Ullah, S Khan, JK Park - Korean Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - Springer
Bacterial cellulose (BC), an important biopolymer, has gained tremendous interest in several
fields in the last few decades. Despite having the same chemical structure as plant cellulose …

Water holding and release properties of bacterial cellulose obtained by in situ and ex situ modification

M Ul-Islam, T Khan, JK Park - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2012 - Elsevier
The biomedical applications of bacterial cellulose (BC) as a dressing material are mainly
dependent on its water holding capacity (WHC) and water release rate (WRR), which in turn …