Swelling and hydrolytic degradation of poly(D,L-lactic acid) in aqueous solutions

By C. S. Proikakis, N. J. Mamouzelos, P. Tarantili, A. Andreopoulos. 2006

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Polymer biodegradation: mechanisms and estimation techniques. (2008, background): “Several studies about biodegradation of some polymers show that the abiotic degradation precedes microbial assimilation (Kister et al., 2000; Proikakis et al., 2006).”
Hydrolysis and Biodegradation of Poly(lactic acid) (2017, background): “For small size samples, such as nano and microparticles, the characteristic size of the device is smaller than the outer diffusion layer and, since the diffusion of the oligomers is not limiting, degradation proceeds invariably through a bulk erosion path [17,121,122].”