Polyurethane recycling and disposal: Methods and prospects

A Kemona, M Piotrowska - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Growing water and land pollution, the possibility of exhaustion of raw materials and
resistance of plastics to physical and chemical factors results in increasing importance of …

Evaluation of biological degradation of polyurethanes

A Magnin, E Pollet, V Phalip, L Avérous - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyurethanes (PU) are a family of versatile synthetic polymers intended for diverse
applications. Biological degradation of PU is a blooming research domain as it contributes to …

Chemical syntheses of biodegradable polymers

M Okada - Progress in polymer science, 2002 - Elsevier
Commercially available synthetic biodegradable polymers had been limited to aliphatic
polyesters until polyesters containing aromatic moieties recently appeared on the market …

Understanding the biodegradation of polyurethanes: from classical implants to tissue engineering materials

JP Santerre, K Woodhouse, G Laroche, RS Labow - Biomaterials, 2005 - Elsevier
After almost half a century of use in the health field, polyurethanes (PUs) remain one of the
most popular group of biomaterials applied for medical devices. Their popularity has been …

[图书][B] Polyurethanes in biomedical applications

NMK Lamba - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Polyurethanes in Biomedical Applications studies the use of polyurethanes in implanted
medical devices. This analysis describes the concepts of polymer science, the manufacture …

Durability of bonds and clinical success of adhesive restorations

RM Carvalho, AP Manso, S Geraldeli, FR Tay… - Dental materials, 2012 - Elsevier
Resin–dentin bond strength durability testing has been extensively used to evaluate the
effectiveness of adhesive systems and the applicability of new strategies to improve that …

Toward biorecycling: isolation of a soil bacterium that grows on a polyurethane oligomer and monomer

MJC Espinosa, AC Blanco, T Schmidgall… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The fate of plastic waste and a sustainable use of synthetic polymers is one of the major
challenges of the twenty first century. Waste valorization strategies can contribute to the …

Enzymatic degradation of polymers: a brief review

A Banerjee, K Chatterjee… - Materials Science and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, research on polymer has drawn much attention mainly due to the ever increasing
application of these polymeric materials in several areas such as food packaging industry …

[PDF][PDF] Plastic biodegradation: Challenges and opportunities

N Wierckx, T Narancic, C Eberlein, R Wei… - … with hydrocarbons, oils …, 2018 - academia.edu
Plastics are extremely useful materials that have transformed our society in a myriad of
ways. However, the widespread use of these materials has led to a staggering amount of …

Blends of poly-(ε-caprolactone) and polysaccharides in tissue engineering applications

G Ciardelli, V Chiono, G Vozzi, M Pracella… - …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Bioartificial blends of poly-(ε-caprolactone)(PCL) with a polysaccharide (starch, S; dextran,
D; or gellan, G)(PCL/S, PCL/D, PCL/G 90.9/9.1 wt ratio) were prepared by a solution …