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 …

Food waste conversion to microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates

C Nielsen, A Rahman, AU Rehman… - Microbial …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolymers with desirable material properties similar to
petrochemically derived plastics. PHAs are naturally produced by a wide range of …

Co-production of microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates with other chemicals

T Li, D Elhadi, GQ Chen - Metabolic engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineering microorganisms capable of simultaneously accumulating multiple products are
economically attractive for biotechnology. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) or microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon sources for polyhydroxyalkanoates and an integrated biorefinery

G Jiang, DJ Hill, M Kowalczuk, B Johnston… - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a group of bioplastics that have a wide range of
applications. Extensive progress has been made in our understanding of PHAs' …

Metabolic engineering for the synthesis of polyesters: A 100-year journey from polyhydroxyalkanoates to non-natural microbial polyesters

SY Choi, MN Rhie, HT Kim, JC Joo, IJ Cho, J Son… - Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
As concerns increase regarding sustainable industries and environmental pollutions caused
by the accumulation of non-degradable plastic wastes, bio-based polymers, particularly …

A sustainable approach for the downstream processing of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates: State-of-the-art and latest developments

C Pérez-Rivero, JP López-Gómez, I Roy - Biochemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioplastics have emerged as a platform to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a family of biodegradable polyesters with large potential …

[HTML][HTML] Can polyhydroxyalkanoates be produced efficiently from waste plant and animal oils?

A Surendran, M Lakshmanan, JY Chee… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a potential replacement for some petrochemical-based
plastics. PHAs are polyesters synthesized and stored by various bacteria and archaea in …

Recent advances in polyhydroxyalkanoate production: Feedstocks, strains and process developments

M Li, MR Wilkins - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have been actively studied in academia and industry for
their properties comparable to petroleum-derived plastics and high biocompatibility …

A microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) based bio-and materials industry

GQ Chen - Chemical society reviews, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Biopolyesters polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) produced by many bacteria have been
investigated by microbiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, chemical engineers …

Recent advances in microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates

S Khanna, AK Srivastava - Process biochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are polyesters of hydroxyalkanoates (HAs) synthesised by
numerous bacteria as an intracellular carbon and energy storage compound. These are …