General Objective: Develop a process to obtain bacterial cellulose for pharmaceutical applications.
Specific objectives:
- Obtain bacterial cellulose (CB) and characterize it through physical, chemical and thermal properties.
- Synthesize a hydrogel with bacterial cellulose (CB) and acrylamide using radical reactions and characterize it physically, chemically and thermally.
- To evaluate the capacity of bacterial cellulose as a drug encapsulating agent.
- Validate the production of bacterial cellulose in two types of laboratory-scale bioreactors.
Participating Institutions:
UTA, EPN, UDLA.
Participants:
project director Dario López Hernández
- Daniel Alfonso Cabrera Valle
- Danae – Fernández Rivero
- Gloria Maribel Luna Aguilera
- Mary Fernanda Casa Villegas
- María Augusta Páez Lara
- Miguel Fernando Aldas Carrasco
- Maria Alejandra Cruz Salazar
- Omar Cristobál Flor Unda
Awarded budget: $44000,00
Project Status: Completed
