A review of biodegradable plastics: chemistry, applications, properties, and future research needs

MS Kim, H Chang, L Zheng, Q Yan, BF Pfleger… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Environmental concerns over waste plastics' effect on the environment are leading to the
creation of biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics may serve as a promising …

Synthetic biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs): Recent advances and future challenges

AH Westlie, EC Quinn, CR Parker, EYX Chen - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article reviews the advances made over the past five decades of research in develo**
effective chemocatalytic pathways to synthesize polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a prominent …

Chemically circular, mechanically tough, and melt-processable polyhydroxyalkanoates

L Zhou, Z Zhang, C Shi, M Scoti, DK Barange… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have attracted increasing interest as sustainable plastics
because of their biorenewability and biodegradability in the ambient environment. However …

Spiro-salen catalysts enable the chemical synthesis of stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates

HY Huang, W **ong, YT Huang, K Li, Z Cai, JB Zhu - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Although bacterial stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates have attracted broad interest as
sustainable materials, it remains a long-standing challenge to chemically synthesize …

Electroactive biomaterials and systems for cell fate determination and tissue regeneration: design and applications

Z Liu, X Wan, ZL Wang, L Li - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During natural tissue regeneration, tissue microenvironment and stem cell niche including
cell–cell interaction, soluble factors, and extracellular matrix (ECM) provide a train of …

Industrial wastewater treatment: Current trends, bottlenecks, and best practices

D Dutta, S Arya, S Kumar - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization and industrialization have inextricably linked to water consumption and
wastewater generation. Mining resources from industrial wastewater has proved to be an …

A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants–market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks

P Kehrein, M Van Loosdrecht, P Osseweijer… - … : Water Research & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, academia has elaborated a wide range of technological solutions to
recover water, energy, fertiliser and other products from municipal wastewater treatment …

Recent advances in polyhydroxyalkanoates degradation and chemical recycling

A Dhaini, V Hardouin-Duparc, A Alaaeddine… - Progress in Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plastics are nowadays essential to our daily life for a wide range of applications. In order to
face the demand of polymer markets, given the depletion of fossil feedstocks from which they …

Development and advantages of biodegradable PHA polymers based on electrospun PHBV fibers for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications

Ł Kaniuk, U Stachewicz - ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biodegradable polymeric biomaterials offer a significant advantage in disposable or fast-
consuming products in medical applications. Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA): properties and modifications

V Sharma, R Sehgal, R Gupta - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
There are a wide range of biopolymers produced by a number of different microorganisms.
Polyhydroxyalkanoates are also a diverse group among these biopolymers. In recent times …