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A New Wave of Industrialization of PHA Biopolyesters
Bioengineering, 2022 The ever-increasing use of plastics, their fossil origin, and especially their persistence in nature have started a wave of new innovations in materials that are renewable, offer the functionalities of plastics, and are biodegradable.
Martin Koller, Anindya Mukherjee
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Microbial Cell Factories, 2018 Background High production cost of bioplastics polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) is a major obstacle to replace traditional petro-based plastics. To address the challenges, strategies towards upstream metabolic engineering and downstream fermentation ...
Jing Chen +4 more
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Polymer Testing, 2022 Compatibilized poly (lactic acid)/poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate) (PLA/P (3HB-co-4HB)) blends with poly (ethylene-butylacrylate-glycidyl methacrylate) (PTW) as compatibilizer were prepared by one-step melt blending in a twin-screw extruder ...
Xiaolong Li +8 more
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, 2023 Here, we report the marine degradability of polymers with highly ordered structures in natural environmental water using microbial degradation and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) tests. Three types of elastic fibers (non-porous as-spun, non-porous drawn,
Taku Omura (3538247) +5 more
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Fermentation, 2023 Gas fermentation is an upcoming technology to convert gaseous substrates into value-added products using autotrophic microorganisms. The hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria Cupriavidus necator efficiently uses CO2 as its sole carbon source, H2 as electron donor ...
Vera Lambauer +6 more
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Production of poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) by Burkholderia sacchari using wheat straw hydrolysates and gamma-butyrolactone [PDF]
, 2014 “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and ...
Cesário, M. Teresa +6 more
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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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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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Microbial Biotechnology, 2022 Summary Bacterial outer membrane (OM) is a self‐protective and permeable barrier, while having many non‐negligible negative effects in industrial biotechnology.
Ziyu Wang +7 more
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Melt processability and thermomechanical properties of blends based on polyhydroxyalkanoates and poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate)† [PDF]
RSC Advances, 2016 The limited thermal stability of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) hinders their wide applicability, and methods to improve the processability of these biopolyesters are needed for efficient processing, e.g. by melt extrusion.
Matilda Larsson +2 more
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