Biopolymers production from microalgae and cyanobacteria cultivated in wastewater: Recent advances

SG Mastropetros, K Pispas, D Zagklis, SS Ali… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic materials are used to manufacture a broad variety of items with a short useful
lifespan, resulting in significant amounts of waste material generation. This form of waste is …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradable and biocompatible polyhydroxy-alkanoates (PHA): auspicious microbial macromolecules for pharmaceutical and therapeutic applications

M Koller - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are bio-based microbial biopolyesters; their stiffness,
elasticity, crystallinity and degradability are tunable by the monomeric composition, selection …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in polyhydroxyalkanoate nanocarriers for effective drug delivery: An overview and challenges

P Prakash, WH Lee, CY Loo, HSJ Wong… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are natural polymers produced under specific conditions by
certain organisms, primarily bacteria, as a source of energy. These up-and-coming …

[PDF][PDF] Advanced approaches to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyesters in a sustainable and economic fashion

M Koller, G Braunegg - EuroBiotech J, 2018 - sciendo.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), the only group of “bioplastics” sensu stricto, are accumulated
by various prokaryotes as intracellular “carbonosomes”. When exposed to exogenous stress …

Formation of porous biodegradable scaffolds based on poly (propylene carbonate) using gas foaming technology

I Manavitehrani, TYL Le, S Daly, Y Wang… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polyester-based scaffolds have been employed in tissue engineering due to their
biocompatibility, biodegradability, microstructure, and affordability. However, the acidic …

Characterisation of selected materials in medical applications

K Kroczek, P Turek, D Mazur, J Szczygielski, D Filip… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field of science that has developed very
intensively in recent years. The first part of this review describes materials with medical and …

Chemical and biochemical engineering approaches in manufacturing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biopolyesters of tailored structure with focus on the diversity of …

M Koller - Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, 2018 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) constitute prokaryotic storage materials not only
harnessing microbial cells with benefits for survival under challenging environmental …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates Production: A Challenge for the Plastic Industry

F Guzmán-Lagunes, P Wongsirichot… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The accumulation of petroleum-based plastics in the environment has heightened the
necessity of finding alternative materials with similar properties and lower environmental …

Progress of supercritical fluid technology in polymerization and its applications in biomedical engineering

WC Tsai, Y Wang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Supercritical fluid technology has emerged as a cost-effective and low-hazard alternative to
solvent-based methodologies in polymer synthesis, pharmaceutical science, and related …

Extraction of polyhydroxyalkanoate from activated sludge using supercritical carbon dioxide process and biopolymer characterization

TY Nayır, S Konuk, S Kara - Journal of Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are biodegradable polymers and have the potential to
substitute with fossil-fuel based polymers since they have similar properties. Many studies …