Bio-based plastics: Status, challenges and trends

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 321-332

  Storz, Henning ^a   Vorlop, Klaus Dieter ^a  

^a THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bio based plastics; Bioeconomy; Biopolymers; Renewable resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896386210     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3220/LBF-2013-321-332     Document Type: Article

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