Contributors
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Daliana Muller.graduated.with.a.degree.in.chemistry.
from.the.Federal.University.of.Santa.Catarina,.Brazil.
(2003)..She.has.a.master’s.degree.in.materials.science.
and.engineering.from.the.Federal.University.of.Santa.
Catarina.(2008)..Since.2009,.she.has.been.a.PhD.student.
at.the.Federal.University.of.Santa.Catarina.studying.
conductive. polymer. blends. based. on. bacterial. cellulose.and.intrinsically.conducting.polymers.
Thi Thi Nge.came.from.Myanmar,.where.she.graduated.from.the.University.of.Yangon.with.a.major.in.
chemistry.in.1994..After.receiving.a.master’s.degree.
in.biotechnology.from.the.Asian.Institute.of.Technology,. Thailand. (1998),. she. came. to. Japan. under. a.
. Japanese. government. fellowship. program.. In. 2002,.
she. received. her. PhD. in. biomaterials. science. from.
the.University.of.Tokyo..She.then.worked.as.a.JSPS.
postdoctoral. fellow. in. the. group. of. Junji. . Sugiyama.
(Research. Institute. for. Humanosphere,. Kyoto. University),. working. on. the. development. of. bacterial.
cellulose-based.biomimetic.composites..Her.research.
interest. is. novel. utilization. of. naturally. occurring. biopolymers,. chitin,.
. chitosan,. and. cellulose. for. the. development. of. socioecologically. friendly.
materials.across.the.spectrum.of.multidisciplines..Since.April.2011,.she.has.
worked. as. a. research. fellow. at. the. Institute. of. Scientific. and. Industrial.
Research.at.Osaka.University.
Catarina Nunes. has. a. degree. in. applied. chemistry.
and. is. a. student. in. the. master’s. program. in. micro/
nanotechnologies. at. the. Department. of. Industrial.
Electronics.at.the.University.of.Minho..She.has.been.
working. in. the. FUNCARB. (FUNctional. CARBohydrates.Nanobiotechnology).Group.at.the.University.
of. Minho. on. the. development. of. bacterial. cellulose.
(BC).composite.films.and.the.surface.. modification.of.
BC nanofibers.