Use of bacterial cellulose in the textile industry and the wettability challenge—a review

Abstract

Bacterial cellulose (BC) has been studied as an alternative material in several segments of the food, pharmaceutical, materials and textile industries. The importance of BC is linked to sustainability goals, since it is an easily degradable biomaterial of low toxicity to the environment and is a renewable raw material. For use in the textile area, bacterial cellulose has attracted great interest from researchers, but it presents some challenges, notably hydrophilicity due to its porous structure. This bibliometric review article gathers studies and methods related to minimizing the hydrophilicity of bacterial cellulose in order to expand its applicability in the textile industry. The databases consulted were ScienceDirect, ProQuest and Web of Science, the documents investigated were scienti c articles and the time period investigated was between 2015 and 2021. The discussion is focused on the applicability of BC in the textile industry, highlighting the research needs, especially with regard to reducing wettability.

Produção de celulose bacteriana (CB) em diferentes meios a partir de culturas de kombucha

“…A CB também pode ser obtida pela produção de kombucha, uma bebida probiótica, sendo a CB sintetizada durante o processo de fermentação, por uma cultura simbiótica de bactérias e leveduras (SCOBY-do inglês symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts), onde os microrganismos utilizam para a sua síntese uma solução a base de carboidratos (açúcar) e nutrientes (oriundos do chá de Camellia sinensis), gerando um biofilme à base de celulose na interface ar-líquido. Está película de CB é considerado um resíduo nas indústrias produtoras de kombucha, mas representa uma importante fonte potencial de CB (Provin et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2019;Wood, 2019).…”

“…Segundo a literatura, os microrganismos mais eficientes para a produção de CB são as bactérias Gram negativas pertencente ao gênero Acetobacter, Acetobacter hansenii e Acetobacter pasteurianuse principalmente a Komagataeibacter xylinus (anteriormente, Gluconacetobacter xylinus) (Provin et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2019). Em estudo para a identificação cepas produtoras de CB obtida da kombucha, Domskiene et al (2019) observaram, através do sequenciamento genético do DNA, a bactéria Komagataeibacter xylinus e componentes de levedura, como Zygosaccharomyces bailii.…”

A Mini-review for the Application of Bacterial Cellulose-based Composites

“…Unlike traditional cellulosic fibers, the potential applications of BC have expanded beyond the paper and textile industries to the fields of materials and energy based on recent in-depth scientific research. In particular, BC has continuously emerged as a research breakthrough in biomaterials and is expected to be a promising biological material in the future [9] . The applications of BC-based composites in filtering, conductive, and medical materials are summarized and discussed in this review [10] .…”

Current status and research trends of textile wastewater treatments—A bibliometric-based study

“…Bibliometric analysis is beneficial in understanding research and development in various fields (Zaman et al, 2016;Borregan-Alvarado et al, 2020;Noor et al, 2020;Xizhen and Zhiqin, 2020;Kuilang and Qian, 2021;Mei et al, 2021;Provin et al, 2021;Syed Hamd Hassan et al, 2021;Halepoto et al, 2022a;Awan et al, 2022;Halepoto et al, 2022b;Xiang et al, 2022). The purpose of this study was to provide a summary of the data currently accessible in the published research on textile wastewater treatments and to concentrate on different techniques, particularly highly efficient technology for the treatment of textile wastewater.…”