Environmental degradation of lignin/poly(hydroxybutyrate) blends

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1114-1122

  Mousavioun, Payam ^a   George, Graeme A ^a   Doherty, William O S ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Degradation; Lignin; Poly(hydroxybutyrate) (PHB); Soil; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

COLONISATION; FTIR; GARDEN SOILS; HYDROXYBUTYRATE; MECHANISM OF DEGRADATION; MELT EXTRUSION; MICROBIAL ATTACK; POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE; RAPID DEGRADATION; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TGA AND DSC;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOPOLYMERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; LIGNIN; MELT SPINNING; MICROORGANISMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 84861586277     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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