Conductive properties of hybrid TiO2/bacterial cellulose fibres by electrostatic force microscopy

Nowadays new research area focused on hybrid inorganic/organic fibres materials based on bacterial cellulose and inorganic nanoparticles paid attention of many researches. It is well known that homogeneously dispersed nanoscale inorganic particles in a polymer matrix improve the mechanical properties of the resulting nanocomposites. Hybrid materials containing metal or semiconductor nanoparticles are interesting from the point of view of nanotechnology due to inorganic-organic composites gather together typical advantages of organic polymers like flexibility, formability, toughness with the ones displayed by typical inorganic nanoparticles like optical, magnetic and electrical properties, luminescence, ionic conductivity and selectivity, as well as chemical or biochemical activity.