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ReviewBioengineered2021

Bacterial nanocellulose: engineering, production, and applications.

Reshmy R, Eapen Philip, Deepa Thomas, Aravind Madhavan, Raveendran Sindhu, Parameswaran Binod, Sunita Varjani, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Ashok Pandey

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Review in Bioengineered, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Reshmy RPost Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, India.
Eapen PhilipPost Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, India.
Deepa ThomasPost Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, India.
Aravind MadhavanRajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Raveendran SindhuMicrobial Processes and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum, India.
Parameswaran BinodMicrobial Processes and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum, India.
Sunita VarjaniParyavaran Bhavan, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar, India.
Mukesh Kumar AwasthiCollege of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China.
Ashok PandeyCentre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Lucknow, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1626-3529

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) has been emerging as a biomaterial of considerable significance in a number of industrial sectors because of its remarkable physico-chemical and biological characteristics. High capital expenses, manufacturing costs, and a paucity of some well-scalable methods, all of which lead to low BNC output in commercial scale, are major barriers that must be addressed. Advances in production methods, including bioreactor technologies, static intermittent, and semi-continuous fed batch technologies, and innovative outlay substrates, may be able to overcome the challenges to BNC production at the industrial scale. The novelty of this review is that it highlights genetic modification possibilities in BNC production to overcome existing impediments and open up viable routes for large-scale production, suitable for real-world applications. This review focuses on various production routes of BNC, its properties, and applications, especially the major advancement in food, personal care, biomedical and electronic industries.

Indexed as

NanotechnologyBacteriaCelluloseFermentationGenetic EngineeringNanostructuresCelluloseBacterial nanocellulose (BNC)biosynthesisgenetic modificationstatic fermentation

Identifiers

PMID34818969
PMCPMC8810168

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