This work aimed at studying the effects of various culture media
and carbon sources in order to formulate a general, simple and inexpensive
medium to produce bacterial cellulose. More common carbon sources such
as glucose, mannitol, sucrose, date syrup and foodgrade sucrose
were used in this study. Carbon sources were compared in terms
of biomass and production yield, and the morphology and structure
of the bacterial cellulose obtained were studied. In this context, bacterial cellulose nanofibers
produced in the selected media were characterized by means of xray
diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy
(FE-SEM) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA).