Toward a Circular Bioeconomy: Designing Microbes and Polymers for Biodegradation

V Mubayi, CB Ahern, M Calusinska… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer production is rapidly increasing, but there are no large-scale technologies available
to effectively mitigate the massive accumulation of these recalcitrant materials. One potential …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial and Enzymatic Biodegradation of Plastic Waste for a Circular Economy

MA Akram, R Savitha, GK Kinsella, K Nolan, BJ Ryan… - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plastics play a crucial role in modern life, but their accumulation poses a serious threat to
both the environment and human health. Due to their effects on the terrestrial and aquatic …

Biodegradation of polyethylene with polyethylene‐group‐degrading enzyme delivered by the engineered Bacillus velezensis

F Bai, J Fan, X Zhang, X Wang, S Liu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2025 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) pose an emerging threat to vegetable growing soils in Harbin, which
have a relatively high abundance (11065 n/kg) with 17.26 of potential ecological risk of …

Enhancing the reactivity of a P450 decarboxylase with ionic liquids

JH Nicholson, MC de Avila, RR de Melo… - Green …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The cytochrome P450 family of enzymes have been shown to be powerful biocatalysts for a
wide range of selective transformations. However, the industrial uptake of P450 enzymes …

Sustainable dressings for wound healing

MN Gupta, A Rangaraju, P Ambre - Biotechnology for Sustainable …, 2025 - Springer
The field of chronic wound care has been rapidly evolving. With a market size for care of
chronic wounds in billions of USD, this is not an insignificant area to encourage more …

[PDF][PDF] Reducing plastic Waste

W Courtene-Jones - 2024 - research.bangor.ac.uk
Background Plastic is a versatile and inexpensive material that has a wide variety of
applications in products used in most sectors. 1 However, its extensive use over decades …

[PDF][PDF] Reducing plastic waste

B Konstantinos, J Wentworth - 2024 - researchgate.net
Background Plastic is a versatile and inexpensive material that has a wide variety of
applications in products used in most sectors. 1 However, its extensive use over decades …