Microbial deterioration and degradation of Polymeric materials

By K. Mohan, T. Srivastava. Journal of biochemical technology, 2011

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Thermochemical conversion of plastic waste to fuels: a review (2020, background): “Both extracellular and intracellular enzymes, particularly depolymerases are involved in the biodegradation of plastics (Mohan and Srivastava 2010).”
• Biodegradation of Synthetic and Natural Plastic by Microorganisms (2017, background): “Hardness (Tg) (soft polymers degrade faster than hard ones) [26,27,28].”
• Biodegradation of Low Density Polyethylene (Ldpe) by Mangrove Fungi from the Red Sea Coast (2015, background): “Biodegradation of a high mass polymer like LDPE has to be facilitated by extracellular enzymes released by the acting microorganism [38, 32, 17, 39].”
• (Nano)plastics in the environment - Sources, fates and effects. (2016, background): “Evidently, the rate and extension of biodegradation are also affected by the types of organisms present and the amount of biomass available (Mohan, 2011), as well as their specific sensitivity and adaptability to environmental settings (Krzan et al., 2006; Lambert et al., 2014).”
• Review on the current status of polymer degradation: a microbial approach (2017, background): “On the other hand, if SO42− is absent, then CH4 and CO2 will form under anaerobic conditions (Gallert and Winter 2005; Mohan and Srivastava 2011; Leja and Lewandowicz 2010a, b).”
• Recycling of Bioplastics: Routes and Benefits (2020, background): “) of the microorganism responsible for the enzymes [32, 33].”
• An overview of microplastic and nanoplastic pollution in agroecosystems. (2018, background): “Biodegradation is the process of mineralisation of an organic material by microorganisms to generate CO2 and H2O under aerobic conditions, or CO2 and CH4 under anaerobic conditions (Mohan, 2011).”