Bacterial cellulose: Recent advances in biosynthesis, functionalization strategies and emerging applications

Muiruri, Joseph Kinyanjui; Yeo, Jayven Chee Chuan; Zhu, Qiang; Ye, Enyi; Loh, Xian Jun; Li, Zibiao

doi:10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2023.112446

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“…Bacterial cellulose (BC) is an ideal natural green reinforcing material for fabricating a high-quality modied PP electrode lm due to its unique dense reticulated nanostructure, hydrophilicity, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. 34,35 Recently, some BC-based ionic electroactive actuators exhibited bending deformations, such as BMIM-Cl-FDBC, 36 TOBC-IL-G, 37 FCBC-PPy-IL, 38 and BC-IL-MWCNT, 39 as well as our recently reported BC-IL-PVA 40 and CCNF-IL-GN actuators. 41 However, the majority focused on optimizing the intermediate polyelectrolyte layer, and then depositing PP solution on the polyelectrolyte surfaces via the dip/drop-casting method to obtain a three-layer actuator, which cannot guarantee the uniformity of the electrode lms.…”

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Self-standing bacterial cellulose-reinforced poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate) doped with graphene oxide composite electrodes for high-performance ionic electroactive soft actuators

Wu,

Cui,

et al. 2024

Nanoscale Adv.

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Self-standing bacterial cellulose-reinforced poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate) doped with graphene oxide composite electrodes for high-performance ionic electroactive soft actuators

Wu,

Cui,

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Nanoscale Adv.

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“…BC represents the purest form of cellulose, without any pectin, lignin, hemicellulose, or arabinose [ 41 ]. It has attracted much attention in different fields such as biomedicine [ 42 , 43 , 44 ], textiles [ 45 ], food [ 46 ], 3D printing [ 47 ], and cosmetics [ 48 ] due to its unique properties, such as ultra-fine three-dimensional (3D) fibrous-network nanostructures, hydrophilicity, high porosity, high water-holding capacity, high mechanical strength, crystallinity, and biocompatibility ( Figure 2 a) [ 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 ].…”

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Delivery of Probiotics with Cellulose-Based Films and Their Food Applications

Yang,

Zhang,

2024

Polymers

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Probiotics have attracted great interest from many researchers due to their beneficial effects. Encapsulation of probiotics into biopolymer matrices has led to the development of active food packaging materials as an alternative to traditional ones for controlling food-borne microorganisms, extending food shelf life, improving food safety, and achieving health-promoting effects. The challenges of low survival rates during processing, storage, and delivery to the gut and low intestinal colonization, storage stability, and controllability have greatly limited the use of probiotics in practical food-preservation applications. The encapsulation of probiotics with a protective matrix can increase their resistance to a harsh environment and improve their survival rates, making probiotics appropriate in the food packaging field. Cellulose has attracted extensive attention in food packaging due to its excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, environmental friendliness, renewability, and excellent mechanical strength. In this review, we provide a brief overview of the main types of cellulose used for probiotic encapsulation, as well as the current advances in different probiotic encapsulating strategies with cellulose, grafted cellulose, and cellulose-derived materials, including electrospinning, cross-linking, in-situ growth, casting strategies, and their combinations. The effect of cellulose encapsulation on the survival rate of probiotics and the patented encapsulated probiotics are also introduced. In addition, applications of cellulose-encapsulated probiotics in the food industry are also briefly discussed. Finally, the future trends toward developing encapsulated probiotics with improved health benefits and advanced features with cellulose-based materials are discussed.

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Comparative analysis of millet bran nanocelluloses with various morphologies: Revealing differences in the formation mechanism and structure characteristics

Zhu,

Wei,

Jiang

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Carbohydrate Polymers

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Bacterial cellulose: Recent advances in biosynthesis, functionalization strategies and emerging applications

Cited by 11 publications

References 143 publications

Self-standing bacterial cellulose-reinforced poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate) doped with graphene oxide composite electrodes for high-performance ionic electroactive soft actuators

Self-standing bacterial cellulose-reinforced poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(4-styrenesulfonate) doped with graphene oxide composite electrodes for high-performance ionic electroactive soft actuators

Delivery of Probiotics with Cellulose-Based Films and Their Food Applications

Comparative analysis of millet bran nanocelluloses with various morphologies: Revealing differences in the formation mechanism and structure characteristics

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