Potentiality of Bacterial Cellulose as the Scaffold of Tissue Engineering of Cornea

• Published in: 2009 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Jia, Hui, Jia, Yuanyuan, Wang, Jiao, Hu, Yuan, Zhang, Yuan, Jia, Shiru
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 2009
• Subjects: Atomic force microscopy; Biological materials; Cornea; Humans; Material properties; Microorganisms; Optical materials; Scanning electron microscopy; Sheet materials; Tissue engineering

The bacterial cellulose (BC) secreted by Gluconacetobacter xylinus was explored as a novel scaffold material due to its unusual biocompatibility, light transmittance and material properties. The specific surface area of the frozen-dried BC sheet based on BET isotherm was 22.886 m 2 /g, and the poros...