Study on the Circularly Polarized Fluorescence Properties of Bacterial Cellulose

2025-08-07


Cellulose is the most abundant and easily renewable resource in nature, and the effective utilization of this type of resource is undoubtedly green and economical. Among them, bacterial cellulose (BC) has advantages over cellulose from other sources, such as high purity, high crystallinity, and good biocompatibility, which has increasingly attracted researchers' interest. Bacterial cellulose has been widely applied in fields such as biomedicine, electrical materials, and optical materials. Meanwhile, circularly polarized light can contain and transmit richer information than ordinary light sources, thus attracting attention in many fields such as optical display devices, information encryption materials, biological coding, optical information storage, and optical devices. There have been many studies on the circular polarization properties of other forms of cellulose, especially crystalline nanocellulose, but the circular polarization properties of bacterial cellulose have not yet been reported.

Cellulose is the most abundant and easily renewable resource in nature, and the effective utilization of this type of resource is undoubtedly green and economical. Among them, bacterial cellulose (BC) has advantages over cellulose from other sources, such as high purity, high crystallinity, and good biocompatibility, which has increasingly attracted researchers' interest. Bacterial cellulose has been widely applied in fields such as biomedicine, electrical materials, and optical materials. Meanwhile, circularly polarized light can contain and transmit richer information than ordinary light sources, thus attracting attention in many fields such as optical display devices, information encryption materials, biological coding, optical information storage, and optical devices. There have been many studies on the circular polarization properties of other forms of cellulose, especially crystalline nanocellulose, but the circular polarization properties of bacterial cellulose have not yet been reported.

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