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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 Compostable and biodegradable plastics are growing in popularity but their environmental credentials need to be more fully assessed to determine how they can be a part of the solution to the plastic waste crisis.
Danielle Purkiss +6 more
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental SafetyIngestion of microplastics can lead to deleterious consequences for organisms, as documented by numerous laboratory studies. The current knowledge is based on a multitude of effect studies, conducted with conventional fossil-based and non-degradable ...
Lukas Miksch +5 more
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, 2021 Plastics that are degraded by microbial or enzymatic activity are known as biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics are an alternative to conventional plastics that are chemically synthesized and are responsible for causing environmental pollution due to unwanted accumulation occurring via disposal practices. There was a serious need to introduce
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International Journal of Polymer Science, 2022 Although many studies are being actively conducted to develop biodegradable plastic materials, most of these reports focused more on efficiency or performance improvement than on the reaction mechanism. This paper discussed the reaction mechanism applied
Yongeun Kim, Cheolsoo Jung
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The role of biodegradable plastics in a sustainable economy: Progress and challenges
Cleaner Engineering and TechnologyThe widespread use of plastics has resulted in significant environmental challenges, including pollution, landfill accumulation, and harm to ecosystems and human health.
Tina Kegl, Yee Van Fan, Lidija Čuček
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Functional screening identified PcSyn14890, a cyanobacteria‐specific protein that enhances growth and stress resistance in E. coli and Synechocystis PCC6803. Although we expected it to function as a molecular chaperone, it was unable to protect against thermal aggregation of GAPDH.
Akiyo Yamada +7 more
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EngineeringPlastics play a pervasive role in contemporary society and serve a wide range of purposes. However, widespread accumulation of plastic waste has become a serious environmental concern.
Sungbin Ju +7 more
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Adaptive Foam 3D Printing of Ultralight and Multifunctional Materials
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Adaptive foam 3D printing, enabled by expandable microspheres, imparts cellular structures to thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, manufactured through a variety of processes including fused filament fabrication, direct ink writing, digital light processing, and inkjet printing.
Nariman Rajabifar, Amir Ameli
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Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw +3 more
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Biodegradation of plastics at home composting conditions
Environmental Challenges, 2022 Plastics have become an ever-increasing environmental pollution problem since high amounts of them are dumped every year into the environment. To remediate this problem, many proposals attempt to produce new plastics with the same sound characteristics ...
Godofredo Solano +4 more
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