articleEuropean Polymer JournalJul 31, 2014HYBRID OA

Nanocellulose in biomedicine: Current status and future prospect

NLNing LinADAlain Dufresne

Institut polytechnique de Grenoble

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Abstract

Nanocellulose, a unique and promising natural material extracted from native cellulose, has gained much attention for its use as biomedical material, because of its remarkable physical properties, special surface chemistry and excellent biological properties (biocompatibility, biodegradability and low toxicity). Three different types of nanocellulose, viz. cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) and bacterial cellulose (BC), are introduced and compared in terms of production, properties and biomedical applications in this article. The advancement of nanocellulose-based biomedical materials is summarized and discussed on the analysis of latest studies (especially reports from the past five…

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  • Nanocellulose
  • Biocompatibility
  • Nanotechnology
  • Cellulose
  • Drug delivery
  • Biomedicine
  • Bacterial cellulose
  • Materials science
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