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

作者：Xue, Yan^*; Mou, Zihao; Xiao, Huining^*

来源：Nanoscale, 2017, 9(39): 14758-14781.

DOI：10.1039/c7nr04994c

• BACTERIAL-CELLULOSE PRODUCTION
• OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT COMPOSITES
• POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE) NANOFIBERS
• PINEAPPLE LEAF FIBERS
• IN-VITRO DEGRADATION
• NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE
• SILVER NANOPARTICLES
• MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES
• MICROBIAL CELLULOSE
• NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE

Nanocellulose, extracted from the most abundant biomass material cellulose, has proved to be an environmentally friendly material with excellent mechanical performance owing to its unique nano-scaled structure, and has been used in a variety of applications as engineering and functional materials. The great biocompatibility and biodegradability, in particular, render nanocellulose promising in biomedical applications. In this review, the structure, treatment technology and properties of three different nanocellulose categories, i.e., nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC), nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and bacterial nanocellulose (BNC), are introduced and compared. The cytotoxicity, biocompatibility and frontier applications in biomedicine of the three nanocellulose categories were the focus and are detailed in each section. Future prospects concerning the cytotoxicity, applications and industrial production of nanocellulose are also discussed in the last section.

• 出版日期2017-10-21
• 单位西南石油大学