Performance Improvement for Biomedical Material - Bacterial Cellulose

Author

Jia Yuan-Yuan ; Tang Wei-hua ; Li Fei ; Jia Shi-Ru

Author_Institution

Coll. of Mater. Sci. & Chem. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tianjin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Bacterial cellulose has been deemed as a promising biomedical and tissue engineering material, due to the excellent biocompatibility, bio-degradability, water holding capacity and mechanical properties it possesses. This paper aims to improve its properties to meet the requirements of biomedical materials. The reasonable way is to impregnate BC pellicle with epsiv-PL solution and then immerse it into glycerol solution. Water absorbance, softness, flexibility, tensile strength and anti-bacterial activity have been improved successfully by aforesaid treatment.

Keywords

antibacterial activity; biodegradable materials; biomedical materials; microorganisms; organic compounds; tensile strength; tissue engineering; BC pellicle; anti-bacterial activity; bacterial cellulose; bio-degradability material; biocompatible material; biomedical material; epsiv-PL solution; tensile strength; tissue engineering material; water holding capacity; Anti-bacterial; Biomedical materials; Biomembranes; Chemical technology; Materials science and technology; Mechanical factors; Microorganisms; Printing; Tissue engineering; Water;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163179

Filename

5163179