Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

A natural in situ fabrication method of functional bacterial cellulose using a microorganism

  • Minghong Gao,
  • Juan Li,
  • Zixian Bao,
  • Moudong Hu,
  • Rui Nian,
  • Dexin Feng,
  • Dong An,
  • Xing Li,
  • Mo Xian,
  • Haibo Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07879-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a ubiquitous biomaterial, but functionalization relies on modification processes which have low reaction efficiency and can cause pollution. Here the authors develop an environmental friendly in-situ fermentation method using fluorescein labelled glucose to produce fluorescent BC.