Most of all petroleum-based materials are used for a short period of time but then take centuries to degrade. Food packaging and textile are examples of industries that are truly dependent of synthetic materials. Therefore, there is an increasing interest on seeking alternatives to these materials. Plant nanocellulose (PNC) has been actively studied, yet the high demand may arise environmental issues such deforestation and wood processing. An alternative source is bacterial cellulose (BC), produced by bacteria of the genus Komagataeibacter, through fermentation. BC has a great potential due to great mechanical performance, despite some drawbacks such high water affinity (for food packaging) and high molecular weight (for textiles). Different approaches were used with the attempt to reduce water vapor permeability and functionalize BC based composite for Food packaging. For textiles, highly performing fibres were developed after using adapted Lyocell and Ioncell technologies.This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit, BIOPROTECT - Development of Biodegradable Packaging Material with Active Properties for Food Preservation POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069858, COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional DevelopmentFund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte.” The authors also acknowledge the financial support of the FCT (ESF) through the grant given to Francisco A.G.S. Silva (SFRH/BD/146375/2019). The authors also thank all the support given by the Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research (TITK) and the department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University. The authors also thank the support of Aquitex - Acabamentos Químicos Têxteis, S.A.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
