Biodegradability of a Selected Range of Polymers and Polymer Blends and Standard Methods for Assessment of Biodegradation

By R. Jayasekara, I. Harding, I. C. Bowater, G. Lonergan. 2005

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• Hydrolysis and Biodegradation of Poly(lactic acid) (2017, background): “Depending on the process of degradation, the material can be classified as photodegradable, when degradation is by UV light, or biodegradable when degradation is performed by micro-organisms [126].”
• Thermoplastic starches: Properties, challenges, and prospects (2013, background): “The latter type of biodegradation is more rapid than that of TPSs and biopolymers [158–161].”
• Polymer Biodegradation and Biodegradable Polymers - a Review (2010, unknown): “In the case of synthetic polymers, microbial utilization of its carbon backbone as a carbon source is required [2].”