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Recent Advances in the Use of Polyhydroyalkanoates in Biomedicine
Bioengineering, 2019 Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a family of natural biopolyesters, are widely used in many applications, especially in biomedicine. Since they are produced by a variety of microorganisms, they possess special properties that synthetic polyesters do not ...
Alejandra Rodriguez-Contreras
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Multilayer structures based on annealed electrospun biopolymer coatings of interest in water and aroma barrier fiber-based food packaging applications [PDF]
, 2018 In this research work, for the first time, a fiber-based packaging material was coated by annealed electrospun ultrathin fibers of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), poly(vinyl alcohol), and polylactide.
Cabedo, Luis +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 Bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) possesses physical and mechanical properties suitable for substituting high-performance petroleum plastics but current production is costly and slow.
Xiaoyan Tang, Eugene Y.-X. Chen
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Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2019 Molecular dynamics of semi-crystalline poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and copolymers poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) containing 5 wt.% (PHBV5) and 12 wt.% (PHBV12) 3-hydroxyvalerate monomer was studied with solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
XU Guang-yong +3 more
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Designing Novel Interfaces via Surface Functionalization of Short-Chain-Length Polyhydroxyalkanoates
Advances in Polymer Technology, 2019 Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), a microbial plastic has emerged as promising biomaterial owing to the broad range of mechanical properties. However, some studies revealed that PHA is hydrophobic and has no recognition site for cell attachment and this is ...
S. Vigneswari +4 more
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Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, 2020 In this study, adsorption treatment of phenol pollutant using electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) [P(3HB-co-3HHx)] is highlighted for the first time. Both P(3HB) and P(3HB-co-3HHx) were extracted
Ainil Hawa +4 more
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Photodegradation and Photostabilization of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) [PDF]
Materials Research, 2016 The present work is concerned with the photodegradation and photostabilization of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) biopolymer. Two commercial grades of PHB were investigated, containing of 4.0% and 6.2% of hydroxyvalerate (HV) comonomer, named PHB1 and PHB2,
Renate Maria Ramos Wellen +3 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2021 In this work, novel chrysin-loaded poly(ε-caprolactone) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) microcarriers were synthesized according to a modified oil-in-water single emulsion/solvent evaporation method, utilizing poly(vinyl alcohol) surfactant as stabilizer and
Eleftherios Halevas +7 more
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The effect of temperature during culture enrichment on methanotrophic polyhydroxyalkanoate production [PDF]
, 2019 Producción CientíficaClimate change and plastic pollution are likely the most relevant environmental problems of the 21st Century. Thus, one of the most promising solutions to remedy both environmental problems simultaneously is the bioconversion of ...
Bordel Velasco, Sergio +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 The copolymerization of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a promising trend in bioengineering to improve biomedical properties, e.g. biocompatibility, of this biodegradable polymer.
Anton Bonartsev +14 more
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