Studies on the enzymatic hydrolysis of polyesters. II. Aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters

By Elke Marten, R. Müller, W. Deckwer. 2005

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Biological degradation of synthetic polyesters—Enzymes as potential catalysts for polyester recycling (2006, background): “This model could soon be extended to aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters [16] proving DTmt the major factor ruling biodegradability of all polyesters with this type of enzymes.”
Chemical Recycling of PET Wastes with Different Catalysts (2015, background): “According to studies on enzymatic degradation of PET, this limitation has been shown to be stemmed from the increase in polymer chain flexibility upon heating in amorphous regions and consequently becoming more accessible to the enzyme catalytic site [27].”
Polymer biodegradation: mechanisms and estimation techniques. (2008, methodology): “Actually, the analytical techniques used to estimate the thermodegradation are very similar to those that are used for the estimation of photodegradation (i.e. tensile tests, TGA, GPC, FTIR, NMR and GC–MS) (Bikiaris et al., 1997a,b; Bikiaris and Karayannidis, 1999; Zaharescu, 2001; Fan et al., 2004;”
Biological Degradation of Polymers in the Environment (2019, background): “The durability and the resulting low biodegradability of PET are due to the presence of repeating aromatic terephthalate units in its backbone and the corresponding limited mobility of the polymer chains [92].”