Recent trends in biodegradable polymers indicate significant developments in terms of
novel design strategies and engineering to provide advanced polymers with comparably …

This review aims at highlighting on recent developments in preparation, characterization,
properties, crystallization behaviors, melt rheology, processing, and future applications …

Hemicelluloses, comprising the non-cellulose cell-wall polysaccharides of vegetative and
storage tissues of annual and perennial plants, represent an immense renewable resource …

Since their discovery [Ijima, 1991, Nature, 354, 56], carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been
widely studied due to their large potential applications. First produced in arc-discharge …

Over the past few years, amino acids (AA) have emerged as promising biomaterials for the
synthesis of functional polymers. Owing to the diversity of functional groups in amino acids …

Plastic waste disposal is a huge ecotechnological problem and one of the approaches to
solving this problem is the development of biodegradable plastics. This review summarizes …

Poly (lactic acid), PLA, was blended with monomeric and oligomeric plasticizers in order to
enhance its flexibility and thereby overcome its inherent problem of brittleness. Differential …

Dark fermentation, also known as acidogenesis, involves the transformation of a wide range
of organic substrates into a mixture of products, eg acetic acid, butyric acid and hydrogen …

Over the past five years, Ga (III) and most notably In (III) precursors have attracted a growing
interest for application in ROP catalysis of cyclic esters, primarily lactide, and may now be …

The long-term properties and end-of-life of polymers are not antagonist issues. They actually
are inherently linked by the duality between durability and degradation. The control of the …