An overview of the recent developments in polylactide (PLA) research.

By K. Madhavan Nampoothiri, N. Nair, R. P. John. Bioresource Technology, 2010

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution, Process Chemistry and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Abiotic and biotic environmental degradation of the bioplastic polymer poly(lactic acid): A review (2017, background): “In nature, biotic and abiotic factors exist together; therefore, the whole degradation mechanism of a certain material can be referred as environmental degradation [4,25].”
• PLA-ZnO nanocomposite films: Water vapor barrier properties and specific end-use characteristics (2013, background): “Polylactide (PLA) is an environmental friendly, economical and commercially available polymer that offers great potential as disposable packaging material [27-31].”
• Plastic Film Mulching for Water-Efficient Agricultural Applications and Degradable Films Materials Development Research (2015, background): “There are several enhancements that need to be achieved with the biotechnological production of LA, such as the development of highperformance LA-producing microorganisms and the lowering of the costs of raw materials and natural fermentation manufacturing processes [68, 71].”
• Influence of chemical surface modification of cellulose nanowhiskers on thermal, mechanical, and barrier properties of poly(lactide) based bionanocomposites (2013, background): “Among those polymers, poly(lactide) (PLA), which is a biobased and biodegradable polymer, has attracted large research interest due to its promising properties, its ease of processing and its industrial availability, as acknowledged by the increasing number of reviews and book chapters [18–21].”
• Processing and characterization of plasticized PLA/PHB blends for biodegradable multiphase systems (2015, background): “Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) thereby represents the most investigated aliphatic polyester for a wide range of applications, due to its biodegradability, renewability and excellent mechanical properties, good processability and low cost [6, 7].”
• Mechanical recycling of polylactide, upgrading trends and combination of valorization techniques (2016, background): “Short-time applications from bio-based and biodegradable[1] plastics have attracted much interest [2] in different industrial, social and economic sectors ranging from biomedical applications for their use in surgery [3], as sutures, tissues or scaffolds; pharmacology [4] as drug carriers [5], and p”