Biodegradability of Regenerated Cellulose Films in Soil

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4682-4685

  Zhang, Lina ^a   Liu, Haiqing ^a   Zheng, Lianshuang ^a   Zhang, Jiayao ^a   Du, Yumin ^a   Feng, Hanqiao ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); EQUATIONS OF STATE; FILM PREPARATION; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

HEMICELLULOSE; REGENERATED CELLULOSE FILMS;

CELLULOSE FILMS;

EID: 0030399121     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950624r     Document Type: Article

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