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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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Crystallization behavior of poly(lactide)/poly(β-hydroxybutyrate)/talc composites. [PDF]
, 2013 The authors thank Dr. Patrice Lefrançois (CNAM) for SEM observations. They are also grateful to Pr. Jack R. Plimmer USDA, Agricultural Research Service, USA for his discussions during this work.The morphology and miscibility of commercial poly(lactide ...
DOMENEK, Sandra +3 more
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Microbial Degradation of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) and Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate-Co-3-Hydroxyvalerate) in Soils [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1994 [This corrects the article on p. 3236 in vol. 59.].
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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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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production from synthetic waste using Pseudomonas pseudoflava : PHA synthase enzyme activity analysis from P. pseudoflava and P. palleronii [PDF]
, 2017 Synthetic wastewater (SW) at various carbon concentrations (5–60 g/l) were evaluated for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production using the bacteria Pseudomonas pseudoflava.
CHANG Young-Cheol +5 more
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