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Enhancing Cassava Starch Bioplastics with Vismia guianensis Alcoholic Extract: Characterization with Potential Applications. [PDF]

open access: yesPolymers (Basel)
Santos JF   +7 more
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Bioplastics

2017
The number of newly developed bioplastics has increased sharply in recent years and innovative polymer materials are increasingly present on the plastics market. Bioplastics are not, however, a completely new kind of material, but rather a rediscovered class of materials within the familiar group of materials known as plastics.
Gareth Ross   +2 more
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Bioplastics from microorganisms

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2003
The term 'biomaterials' includes chemically unrelated products that are synthesised by microorganisms (or part of them) under different environmental conditions. One important family of biomaterials is bioplastics. These are polyesters that are widely distributed in nature and accumulate intracellularly in microorganisms in the form of storage granules,
José M, Luengo   +4 more
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Bioplastics and waste management

Waste Management, 2018
Pollution of the marine environment due to plastic materials is one of the most severe environmental problems humanity has to face in the 21st century. The strategy devised until now to address this issue is mainly based on two pillars: (1) increasing the interception of discarded plastic wastes by waste management systems; and (2) substituting the ...
P. S. Calabrò, M. Grosso
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