Towards biodegradable polyolefins: strategy of anchoring minute quantities of monosaccharides and disaccharides onto functionalized polystyrene, and their effect on facilitating polymer biodegradation

Autor: Galgali, Padmaja, Varma, Anjani J., Puntambekar, Ulka S., Gokhale, Digambar V.
Zdroj: Chemical Communications; November 19, 2002, Vol. 2002 Issue: 23 p2884-2885, 2p
Abstrakt: A hypothesis was developed, and successfully tested, to greatly increase the rates of biodegradation of polyolefins, by anchoring minute quantities of glucose, sucrose or lactose, onto functionalized polystyrene (polystyrene-co-maleic anhydride copolymer) and measuring their rates of biodegradation, which were found to be significantly improved.
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