Degradation of polyethylene by a fungus, Penicillium simplicissimum YK

By K. Yamada-Onodera, H. Mukumoto, Yuhji Katsuyaya, Atsushi Saiganji, Y. Tani. 2001

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• Biological degradation of plastics: a comprehensive review. (2008, background): “If the pro-oxidant is a metal combination, after transition, metal catalyzed thermal peroxidation, biodegradation of low molecular weight oxidation products occurs sequentially (Bonhomme et al., 2003; EI-Shafei et al., 1998; Yamada-Onodera et al., 2001).”
• Microbial degradation and deterioration of polyethylene – A review (2014, methodology): “Two different approaches have been used for the determination ofmolecularweight distribution, themost commonone is the use of size exclusion chromatography techniques at high temperature (Pometto et al.,1992; Albertsson et al.,1995,1998; Yamada-Onodera et al., 2001; Bonhomme et al., 2003; Chiellini ”
• Microbial Degradation of UV-Pretreated Low-Density Polyethylene Films by Novel Polyethylene-Degrading Bacteria Isolated from Plastic-Dump Soil (2018, positive): “, who showed some of the double carbon bonds of polyethylene might be hydrolyzed by bacteria [7, 38].”
• Biodegradation of thermally-oxidized, fragmented low-density polyethylenes (2003, background): “More recently, the biodegradation of higher molecular weight untreated high-density polyethylene with molecular weights up to 28,000 by a Penicillium simplicissimum isolate was reported [20].”
• Biodegradation of Synthetic and Natural Plastic by Microorganisms (2017, background): “Yamada-Onodera et al. (2001) studied a strain of fungus, Penicillium simplicissimum YK, that can biodegrade polyethylene without additives [30].”
• An overview of degradable and biodegradable polyolefins (2011, methodology): “Yamada-Onodera et al[79] studied biodegradation of PE incubated with Penicillium simplicissimum and”