Kinetics and mechanism of the monomeric products from abiotic hydrolysis of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] under acidic and alkaline conditions

By Jian Yu, D. Plackett, Lilian X. L. Chen. 2005

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. M. Nikolic
2. John M. Colwell
3. B. Laycock
4. Steven Bottle
5. E. Gauthier
6. P. Halley
7. G. George
8. L. Avérous

In Pollution

1. M. Nikolic
2. John M. Colwell
3. B. Laycock
4. Steven Bottle
5. E. Gauthier
6. P. Halley
7. G. George

In Polymers and Plastics

1. P. Halley
2. L. Avérous

Citations in the corpus

• Polymer biodegradation: mechanisms and estimation techniques. (2008, methodology): “The abiotic hydrolysis is performed in acidic (HCl and H2SO4) or alkaline (NaOH) media (Yu et al., 2005; Jung et al., 2006).”
• Lifetime prediction of biodegradable polymers (2017, methodology): “acid formation in the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of PHB [242].”