Nadine Hessler

TL;DR: Hydrophilicity, high biocompatibility, and controllable drug loading and release render BNC an innovative and attractive biopolymer for controlled drug delivery.

TL;DR: A novel, efficient process for a (semi‐)continuous cultivation of planar BNC fleeces and foils with a freely selectable length and an adjustable height is presented and shows that this type of processing allows for significant cost reductions compared to static cultivation of BNC in Erlenmeyer flasks.

TL;DR: A high re-swelling value was found to be correlated with the preservation of the three-dimensional BNC network structure and mechanical characteristics such as compression and tensile strength, and demonstrated the applicability of the shape-memorized bacterial nanocellulose as drug delivery system with controllable release profiles.

TL;DR: A high-speed loading technique based on vortexing was established for the incorporation of proteins in BNC as drug delivery system and demonstrated a retarded protein release with a lower total amount of released protein after 168 h compared to the adsorption loaded BNC.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiphase biomaterial based on bacterially synthesized nanocellulose without required additives and composite formations is presented. But the proposed biomaterial is suitable for wide use, for example, in medicine, in technology, and in the food industry due to highly versatile determinable structures and material properties.