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Bio-Protocol, 2023 Various photoautotrophic cyanobacteria accumulate intracellular poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) granules. This protocol can be used for determining the PHB contents of the cells as % PHB weight per dry cell weight using acid hydrolysis followed by high ...
Janine Kaewbai-ngam +2 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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Scientific Reports, 2021 The first polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) block copolymer poly(2-hydroxybutyrate-b-3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(2HB-b-3HB)] was previously synthesized using engineered Escherichia coli expressing a chimeric PHA synthase PhaCAR with monomer sequence-regulating ...
Yuki Kageyama +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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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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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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Novel poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate)/poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) blends for medical applications
, 2013 Novel Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/Poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate) blends were developed with varying amounts of Poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate), P(3HO) and Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), P(3HB) for their potential use in various medical applications. These blend films exhibited
Boccaccini, A.R. +13 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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Simulation of Bioreactors for PHB Production from Natural Gas [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2020 Recently, many economic studies of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) PHB production on an industrial scale, and the impact of replacing petrochemical polymers by PHB were carried out, clearly indicating that the most crucial factors to reduce the cost of producing
Kianoosh Khosravi Darani +6 more
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