Aliphatic polyesters : Abiotic and biotic degradation and degradation products

By Minna Hakkarainen. 2002

271 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomaterials, Pollution

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5a9472b3d6cceeb28724366d7eda53cf0755cc33

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In Automotive Engineering

1. Nandana Bhardwaj
2. G. Gorrasi
3. Mehlika Karamanlioglu
4. G. Robson
5. S. Kundu
6. R. Pantani

In Biomaterials

1. G. Gorrasi
2. Philippe Dubois
3. Mehlika Karamanlioglu
4. G. Robson
5. Nandana Bhardwaj
6. R. Preziosi
7. S. Kundu
8. R. Pantani

In Pollution

1. G. Gorrasi
2. Mehlika Karamanlioglu
3. G. Robson
4. Nandana Bhardwaj
5. R. Preziosi
6. S. Kundu
7. Philippe Dubois
8. R. Pantani

Citations in the corpus

• Electrospinning: a fascinating fiber fabrication technique. (2010, background): “Synthetic polymers often offer many advantages over natural polymers as they can be tailored to give a wider range of properties such as, necessary mechanical properties (viscoelasticity and strength), and desired degradation rate (Hakkarainen, 2002).”
• Polylactide/montmorillonite nanocomposites: study of the hydrolytic degradation (2005, background): “Since the hydrolytic degradation of the polyester chains is known to take place in the amorphous phase of the matrix [4], this phenomenon is expected to increase the PLA crystallinity, which is translated by an increase in the overall opacity of the samples.”
• Abiotic and biotic environmental degradation of the bioplastic polymer poly(lactic acid): A review (2017, background): “Crystalline regions within PLA hydrolyse much more slowly than the amorphous regions as water diffuses more readily into the less organized amorphous regions compared to the more ordered crystalline regions, causing greater rates of hydrolysis and increased susceptibility to biodegradation [16,20,25”
• Lifetime prediction of biodegradable polymers (2017, unknown): “82 hydrolysis degradation products) [281-285] (Fig.”
• Biodegradation of starch/polylactic acid/poly(hydroxyester-ether) composite bars in soil (2003, background): “Most studies of the degradation of PLA have focused on abiotic hydrolysis due to the long standing use of PLA as biomedical implants [3].”
• Hydrolysis and Biodegradation of Poly(lactic acid) (2017, background): “The most critical issue in the application of PLA and of biomaterials based on this polymer is the control of in vitro and in vivo degradation, both of which occur in presence of water [1-3,36-38] As widely reported, the hydrolytic degradation of PLA typically occurs in stages: 1.”