Environmental degradation of polyethylene
By Minna Hakkarainen, A. Albertsson. 2004
174 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Pollution
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/503f110b442017ede157dcbbf73a0b3aaf5a706c
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Environmental Chemistry
In Environmental Engineering
In Pollution
- Buenaventurada P. Calabia
- S. Aiba
- C. U. Ugwu
- Y. Tokiwa
- Michael R. Thompson
- Juan‐Manuel Restrepo‐Flórez
- Amarjeet S. Bassi
- A. Andrady
Citations in the corpus
- An overview of degradable and biodegradable polyolefins (2011, unknown): “Reproduced with permission from [118] 2004, Springer.”
- Biodegradability of Plastics (2009, background): “Biodegradability of PE can also be improved by blending it with biodegradable additives, photo-initiators or copolymerization [96,97].”
- Production, characterization and fuel properties of alternative diesel fuel from pyrolysis of waste plastic grocery bags ☆ (2014, background): “Plastic bags may take centuries to naturally decompose due to their stable chemical composition [2].”
- Degradability of linear polyolefins under natural weathering (2011, background): “As a consequence, alkanes, alkenes, ketones, aldehydes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, keto-acids, linear esters and lactones are formed [13], decreasing the polymer hydrophobicity and molar mass, thus increasing the bioavailability and biodegradability of the polymer [3].”
- Microbial degradation and deterioration of polyethylene – A review (2014, background): “The abiotic mechanisms of deterioration of polyethylene have been described extensively elsewhere (Hakkarainen and Albertsson, 2004), thus this review will be focusing instead on the biodegradation of polyethylene and mechanisms associated with this process.”
- Micro‐by‐micro interactions: How microorganisms influence the fate of marine microplastics (2020, background): “Oxidation products form on the surface such as 182 carbonyl groups that create a more hydrophilic surface on the plastic and are more easily biodegraded 183 (Hakkarainen et al. 2004).”