background bedsore is one of the major problems in all the societies as patients are confined to bed. due to antibiotic resistant strains being a significant obstacle for cure, many plants and herbs are being used by researchers as medicinal compounds. objectives the investigation of synergistic effect of cellulose biopolymer and papaver macrostomum extract on bedsores bacterial community. mate...

Electrospinning is a versatile process used to prepare micro- and nano- sized fibers from various polymers dissolved in volatile solvents. In this report, cellulose and cellulose-heparin composite fibers are prepared from nonvolatile room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) solvents by electrospinning. RTILs are extracted from the biopolymer fiber after the fiber formation using a cosolvent. Micron...

Microstructured thin films based on cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, have been obtained by UV-irradiation of acid-labile trimethylsilyl cellulose thin films in the presence of N-hydroxynaphtalimide triflate as photoacid generator. We demonstrate that this photoregeneration process can be exploited for the manufacture of cellulose patterns having feature sizes down to 1 μm, with...

16 Cellulose, the major constituent of all plant materials and the most abundant 17 organic molecule on the Earth, is a linear biopolymer of glucose molecules, connected 18 by β-1,4-glycosidic bonds. Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose requires mixtures of 19 hydrolytic enzymes including endoglucanases, exoglucanases (cellobiohydrolases) and 20 β-glucosidases acting in a synergistic manner. In bi...

Cellulose, the major constituent of all plant materials and the most abundant organic molecule on the Earth, is a linear biopolymer of glucose molecules, connected by β-1,4-glycosidic bonds. Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose requires mixtures of hydrolytic enzymes including endoglucanases, exoglucanases (cellobiohydrolases), and β-glucosidases acting in a synergistic manner. In biopolymer hydro...

Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on earth. The great abundance of cellulose places it at the forefront as a primary source of biomass for renewable biofuels. However, the knowledge of how plant cells make cellulose remains very rudimentary. Cellulose microfibrils are synthesized at the plasma membrane by hexameric protein complexes, also known as cellulose synthase complexes. The only ...

Biopolymer films containing chitosan as antimicrobial agent were obtained. As polymer matrix poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and bacterial cellulose (BC) were used. The films were characterized using FTIR spectroscopy. FTIR spectra of the pure components and of composites films reveal strong interactions between chitosan and PVA and chitosan and bacterial cellulose. These composite films could be use...

Biopolymer electrolyte based on carboxymethyl cellulose has been prepared by doping with different concentration of oleic acid via solution casting technique. Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy was used to study the complexation between the salt and polymer. New peak was observed at 1710, 2850, 2920 cm. X-ray diffraction study reveals the amorphous nature of the biopolymer electrolyte. Imp...

Novel drum-like Cd(OH)(2) superstructures with uniform size were synthesized on a large scale through a facile one-pot hydrothermal route with the co-existence of ammonia and biopolymer sodium carboxymethyl cellulose solutions.