Biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in tropical coastal waters and identification of PHA-degrading bacteria

By Tatiana G. Volova, A. Boyandin, A. Vasiliev, V. A. Karpov, S. Prudnikova, O. Mishukova, Uljana Boyarskikh, Maxim Filipenko, V. P. Rudnev, Büi Bá Xuån and 2 more. 2010

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution, Process Chemistry and Technology

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In Biomaterials

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In Process Chemistry and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Lifetime prediction of biodegradable polymers (2017, background): “Voinova, Volova and others [334-338] have also studied the degradation of PHAs in a wide range of natural environments.”
• Biodegradability of poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) and poly(ε-caprolactone) via biological carbon cycles in marine environments (2020, unknown): “Firmicutes Bacilli Plastisphere on PHBV [118]”
• Biodegradation of Wasted Bioplastics in Natural and Industrial Environments: A Review (2020, background): “In a study carried out in tropical marine environments, the size and shape of the PHB polymers were found to influence their degradation more than their chemical composition; specifically, thinner and smaller items degraded faster than compact pellets [134].”