Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105405
Keywords
cellulose; biomedical; wound healing; drug delivery; antibacterial; tissue engineering
Funding
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) under MISTRA TerraClean [2015/31]
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This article reviews the applications of cellulose in the field of biomedicine, including antibacterial agents, antifouling, wound healing, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and bone regeneration. Cellulose-based materials possess customizable chemical, mechanical, and physical properties, making them suitable for biomedical applications.
There are various biomaterials, but none fulfills all requirements. Cellulose biopolymers have advanced biomedicine to satisfy high market demand and circumvent many ecological concerns. This review aims to present an overview of cellulose knowledge and technical biomedical applications such as antibacterial agents, antifouling, wound healing, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and bone regeneration. It includes an extensive bibliography of recent research findings from fundamental and applied investigations. Cellulose-based materials are tailorable to obtain suitable chemical, mechanical, and physical properties required for biomedical applications. The chemical structure of cellulose allows modifications and simple conjugation with several materials, including nanoparticles, without tedious efforts. They render the applications cheap, biocompatible, biodegradable, and easy to shape and process.
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