Environmental degradation and biofouling of 'green' plastics including short and medium chain length polyhydroxyalkanoates

Polymer International

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 658-667

  Woolnough, Catherine A ^a   Yee, Lachlan H ^a   Charlton, Tim ^a   Foster, L John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Biofilm; Biopolymer; Polyhydroxyalkanoates; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

3-HYDROXYVALERATE; DEGRADABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ETHYL CELLULOSE; GLYCOLIDE; IN-SITU STUDY; INITIAL WEIGHTS; LACTIDES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE); POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES; POLYHYDROXYOCTANOATE; POLYMER DEGRADATION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE EROSION; SYNTHETIC PLASTICS; WEIGHT LOSS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOFOULING; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; CHAIN LENGTH; DEGRADATION; ELASTOMERS; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTICITY; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS;

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOPOLYMER; COPOLYMER; FOULING; PLASTIC; POLYESTER; POLYSTYRENE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77954509981     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.2746     Document Type: Article

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