Polymers have many advantages such as low weight, low cost, and, importantly, stability
under thermal, chemical, and mechanical stress. This stability, on the other hand, leads to …

Poly (alkylene dicarboxylate) s constitute a family of biodegradable polymers with increasing
interest for both commodity and speciality applications. Most of these polymers can be …

The controlled release of medicaments remains the most convenient way of drug delivery.
Therefore, a wide variety of reports can be found in the open literature dealing with drug …

This work reviews the stripping off, role of water molecules in activity, and flexibility of
immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB). Employment of CALB in ring opening …

The recent trends in the synthesis of functional poly (ester) s by ring-opening polymerization
(ROP) are reviewed. While the use of ROP processes for the synthesis of poly (lactide), poly …

Synthetic biopolymers are attractive alternatives to biobased polymers, especially because
they rarely induce an immune response in a living organism. Poly ε-caprolactone (PCL) is a …

The use of poly (lactide)‐based materials is, in part, limited by their physical and mechanical
properties. This article reviews the methods that have been employed to enable …

Bio-based plastics represent only 1% of world production, while 98% are plastics of fossil
origin. This shows how far we are from an ecologically correct scenario we are, and how …

Although α-methylene-δ-valerolactone (MVL) as a biorenewable six membered lactone
bearing an exocyclic double bond has shown great potential for preparing functional …

BACKGROUND: Enzymes have received increasing attention as biocatalysts. The poly
(lactic) acid (PLA) has been widely employed in biomedical applications and PLA synthesis …