The growing perspective of running out of crude oil followed by increasing prices for all
crude oil-based materials, eg, crude oil-based polymers, which have a huge number of …

Wound infections with rising incidences of multi-drug resistant bacteria are among the public
health problems worldwide. The current study describes wound dressing materials made …

The major sources of waste from aquaculture operations emanates from fish or shellfish
processing and wastewater generation. A simple technique called coagulation/flocculation …

The synthesis of conventional plastics has increased tremendously in the last decades due
to rapid industrialization, population growth, and advancement in the use of modern …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polymers that are
produced by microorganisms as storage materials under limited nutrition and excess …

There is an increasing desire for bioplastics produced from renewable resources as an
alternative to their petrochemical counterparts. These biopolymers have long-unnoticed …

Cocoa bean shell (CBS), a by-product of the chocolate industry, has been employed as a
substrate to obtain poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)(PHB) by fermentation with Bacillus firmus. With …

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family microbial polyester.
Three Gram-negative bacteria that produce PHB, Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterobacter …

Plastics are widely utilized for a variety of purposes due to their versatile properties and
ease of availability at low-cost price. Once disposed, it is widely recognized that they pose a …

Background Polyhydroxybutyrate is a biopolymer produced by bacteria and archaea under
nitrogen-limiting conditions. PHB is an essential polymer in the bioplastic sector because of …