Determination of multiple thermal degradation mechanisms of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1433-1439

  Ariffin, Hidayah ^a,b   Nishida, Haruo ^a   Shirai, Yoshihito ^a   Hassan, Mohd Ali ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Elimination; Crotonic acid; Kinetics; Poly(3 hydroxybutyrate); Thermal degradation; Unzipping reaction

Indexed keywords

ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; MECHANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SULFATE MINERALS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CHAIN REACTIONS; CHAIN-ENDS (CE); DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR; DEGRADATION MECHANISMS; END GROUPS; ESTER GROUPS; KINETIC ANALYSES; POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE) (PHB); POLY--3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE (PHB); RANDOM DEGRADATION; WEIGHT LOSSES;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 48549093415     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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