Innovations in applications and prospects of bioplastics and biopolymers: a review

S Nanda, BR Patra, R Patel, J Bakos… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2022 - Springer
Non-biodegradable plastics are continually amassing landfills and oceans worldwide while
creating severe environmental issues and hazards to animal and human health. Plastic …

Sustainable production and degradation of plastics using microbes

SY Choi, Y Lee, HE Yu, IJ Cho, M Kang, SY Lee - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Plastics are indispensable in everyday life and industry, but the environmental impact of
plastic waste on ecosystems and human health is a huge concern. Microbial biotechnology …

Spiro-salen catalysts enable the chemical synthesis of stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates

HY Huang, W Xiong, 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 …

Advances in bioresorbable triboelectric nanogenerators

M Kang, DM Lee, I Hyun, N Rubab, SH Kim… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the growing demand for next-generation health care, the integration of electronic
components into implantable medical devices (IMDs) has become a vital factor in achieving …

Degradable biomedical elastomers: paving the future of tissue repair and regenerative medicine

B Jia, H Huang, Z Dong, X Ren, Y Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Degradable biomedical elastomers (DBE), characterized by controlled biodegradability,
excellent biocompatibility, tailored elasticity, and favorable network design and …

Biohybrid CO2 electrolysis for the direct synthesis of polyesters from CO2

J Lim, SY Choi, JW Lee, SY Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Converting anthropogenic CO2 to value-added products using renewable energy has
received much attention to achieve a sustainable carbon cycle. CO2 electrolysis has been …

Self-indicating polymers: a pathway to intelligent materials

M Bayat, H Mardani, H Roghani-Mamaqani… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-indicating polymers have emerged as a promising class of smart materials that possess
the unique ability to undergo detectable variations in their physical or chemical properties in …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) synthesis and degradation by microbes and applications towards a circular economy

W Zhou, S Bergsma, DI Colpa, GJW Euverink… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overusing non-degradable plastics causes a series of environmental issues, inferring a
switch to biodegradable plastics. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are promising …

The role of bacterial polyhydroalkanoate (PHA) in a sustainable future: a review on the biological diversity

D Vicente, DN Proença, PV Morais - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Environmental challenges related to the mismanagement of plastic waste became even
more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for new solutions regarding the use …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoates in tissue repair and regeneration

W Guo, K Yang, X Qin, R Luo, H Wang… - Engineered …, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing advanced biocompatibility materials is of critical importance in biomedical
engineering. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), being famous for its flexible mechanical …