Bacterial Cellulose Towards Functional Medical Materials

Bacterial cellulose (BC) has established to be a remarkably versatile biomaterial and can be used in wide variety of applied scientific endeavors, especially for medical devices. In fact, biomedical devices recently have gained a significant amount of attention because of increased interesting tissue-engineered products for both wound care and the regeneration of damaged or diseased organs. The architecture of BC materials can be engineered over length scales ranging from nano to macro by controlling the biofabrication process. It has unique properties that make it an exciting candidate as a medical material: strength, good integration into host tissue, and flexibility of production in various shapes and sizes. This review describes the fundamentals, purification and morphological investigation of bacterial cellulose. Furthermore, provides deep knowledge of current and applications of bacterial cellulose and their green nanocomposites to obtain a biomaterial with less rejection and better cellular contact and blood contact cells interation in human and animal medicine. Besides, futures insights and researches in bacterial cellulose are discussed.