Sugar end-capped polyethylene: Ceric ammonium nitrate initiated oxidation and melt phase grafting of glucose onto polyethylene and its microbial degradation

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1484-1494

  Luckachan, Gisha Elizabeth ^a   Jose, Lissy ^b   Prasad, V S ^a   Pillai, C K S ^a  

^a REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

^b Newman College   (India)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Glucose; Low density polyethylene; Melt phase grafting

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DEGRADATION; GLUCOSE; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MICROORGANISMS; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUGARS;

CERIC AMMONIUM NITRATE; CLEAVAGE; FTIR; KETONE CARBONYL INDEX; MELT PHASE GRAFTING; SEM MICROGRAPHS;

LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 33645155998     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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