Thermal Degradation of Bacterial Poly(hydroxybutyric acid): Mechanisms from the Dependence of Pyrolysis Yields on Sample Thickness

Macromolecules

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 1994, Pages 3782-3789

  Lehrle, Roy S ^a   Williams, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYESTERS; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

POLY(HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); PRODUCT YIELDS; REACTION MECHANISMS; RESIDENCE TIME;

BIOPOLYMERS;

EID: 0028764186     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma00092a017     Document Type: Article

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