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: Received: 31 December 2021 / Approved: 5 January 2022 / Online: 5 January 2022 (11:00:57 CET)
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Abdelhamid, H.N.; Mathew, A.P. A Review on Cellulose-based Materials for Biomedicine. Preprints.org2022, 2022010035. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0035.v1
Abdelhamid, H.N.; Mathew, A.P. A Review on Cellulose-based Materials for Biomedicine. Preprints.org 2022, 2022010035. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0035.v1
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Abdelhamid, H.N.; Mathew, A.P. A Review on Cellulose-based Materials for Biomedicine. Preprints.org2022, 2022010035. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0035.v1
Abdelhamid, H.N.; Mathew, A.P. A Review on Cellulose-based Materials for Biomedicine. Preprints.org 2022, 2022010035. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0035.v1
Abstract
There are various biomaterials in nature, but none fulfills all the requirements. Cellulose, eco-friendly material-based biopolymers, have been advanced biomedicine to satisfy most market demand and circumvent many ecological concerns. This review aims to present an overview of the state of the art in cellulose's knowledge and technical biomedical applications. It included an extensive bibliography of recent research findings for fundamental and applied investigations. The chemical structure of cellulose allows modifications and simple conjugation with several materials, including nanoparticles, without tedious efforts. Cellulose-based materials were used for biomedicine applications such as antibacterial agents, antifouling, wound healing, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and bone regeneration. They advanced the applications to be cheap, biocompatible, biodegradable, easy for shaping and processing into different forms, with suitable chemical, mechanical and physical properties.
Keywords
Cellulose; Biomedical; Wound healing; Drug delivery; Antibacterials; Tissue engineering
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Biomaterials
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
