bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.04.975003; this version posted March 5, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Superabsorbent crosslinked bacterial cellulose biomaterials for chronic wound dressings Daria Ciecholewska-Juśkoa, Anna Żywickaa, Adam Junkab, Radosław Drozda, Peter Sobolewskic, Paweł Migdałd, Urszula Kowalskae, Monika Toporkiewiczf, Karol Fijałkowskia* aDepartment of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Piastów 45, 70-311 Szczecin, Poland;
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[email protected] eCentre of Bioimmobilization and Innovative Packaging Materials, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Janickiego 35, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland;
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[email protected] *Corresponding author: Karol Fijałkowski, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Piastów 45, 70-311 Szczecin, Poland.