An Overview of Fermentation Production and Application of Bacterial Cellulose

Bacterial cellulose is a new pattern material produced by microorganism, because it has unique physical properties, chemical characteristics and mechanical properities, so it's widely applied into food, biomedical, textile and many other kinds of industry. On the other side, because it's a kind of pure natural biopolymer produced by microorganism, so the cellulose has biological activity, biodegradability and biocompatibility etc of excellent characteristics. It has been proved that bacterial cellulose is a biological environmental protection type material, so it becomes the hotspot of many researches and applications all over the world. This paper summarized the method of screening the cellulose-producing strain, how to make the bacterial cellulose yield increase, and the bacterial cellulose's important applications in different industries.