Plastics are nowadays essential to our daily life for a wide range of applications. In order to
face the demand of polymer markets, given the depletion of fossil feed stocks from which …

Plastic pollution has become a global threat to humanity. Fortunately, humanity has always
found ways of overcoming such threats through multipronged approaches. To overcome this …

Polyesters carrying polar main-chain ester linkages exhibit distinct material properties for
diverse applications and thus play an important role in today's plastics economy. It is …

Plastics-based materials have a high carbon footprint, and their disposal is a considerable
problem for the environment. Biodegradable bioplastics represent an alternative on which …

Green chemistry has been a major driver of sustainable development and had an important
diffusion in recent years. In order to investigate the state of the art in this field, a systematic …

To advance the sustainability of the biobased economy, our society needs to develop novel
bioprocesses based on truly renewable resources. The C1-molecule formate is increasingly …

To prepare biobased polymers, particular attention must be paid to the obtention of the
monomers from which they are derived.(Meth) acrylates and their analogs constitute such a …

Two novel protocols for the chemical valorization of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) were
developed, aiming at the production of two bio-based molecules: methyl 3-hydroxybutyrate …

A novel thermolytic distillation process was developed to depolymerize polyhydroxybutyrate
(PHB) for the selective production of crotonic acid. The conditions adopted (170° C, 150 …

The pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass (LB) has become an important process to
reduce the cost of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production. In this study, an economical and …