Recent advances and challenges towards sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production

C Kourmentza, J Plácido, N Venetsaneas… - Bioengineering, 2017 - mdpi.com
Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that
research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoate bio-production and its rise as biomaterial of the future

T Palmeiro-Sánchez, V O'Flaherty, PNL Lens - Journal of Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
The first observation of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) aggregate was in 1888 by
Beijenrinck. Despite polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) being the first type of PHA discovered, it …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production via resource recovery from industrial waste streams: A review of techniques and perspectives

LDD Novelli, SM Sayavedra, ER Rene - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of waste generation in the form of wastewater and solid wastes has caused an
urgent, yet persisting, global issue that calls for the development of sustainable treatment …

Recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from wastewater: a review

G Mannina, D Presti, G Montiel-Jarillo, J Carrera… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolyesters accumulated as carbon and energy
storage materials under unbalanced growth conditions by various microorganisms. They are …

Cheese whey: A potential resource to transform into bioprotein, functional/nutritional proteins and bioactive peptides

JSS Yadav, S Yan, S Pilli, L Kumar, RD Tyagi… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
The byproduct of cheese-producing industries, cheese whey, is considered as an
environmental pollutant due to its high BOD and COD concentrations. The high organic load …

[HTML][HTML] Innovative solutions and challenges to increase the use of Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) in food packaging and disposables

D Garcia-Garcia, L Quiles-Carrillo, R Balart… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)(PHB) has gain in recent years a huge interest in the food
packaging field due to its renewable origin from waste as well as non-food crops, high …

The chemomechanical properties of microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates

B Laycock, P Halley, S Pratt, A Werker, P Lant - Progress in polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microbially produced polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are fully biodegradable biopolyesters
that have attracted much attention recently as alternative polymeric materials that can be …

Bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates-eco-friendly next generation plastic: production, biocompatibility, biodegradation, physical properties and applications

Muhammadi, Shabina, M Afzal… - Green Chemistry Letters …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are intracellular aliphatic polyesters synthesized as energy
reserves, in the form of water-insoluble, nano-sized discrete and optically dense granules in …

Biodegradable polymers-a review on recent trends and emerging perspectives

GE Luckachan, CKS Pillai - Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 2011 - Springer
Recent trends in biodegradable polymers indicate significant developments in terms of
novel design strategies and engineering to provide advanced polymers with comparably …

Recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates from single and mixed microbial cultures: a review

G Pagliano, P Galletti, C Samorì, A Zaghini… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
An overview of the main polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) recovery methods is here reported,
by considering the kind of PHA-producing bacteria (single bacterial strains or mixed …