What is it about?
Our daily life needs depend on plastics, but a major concern related to these plastics is their non‐biodegradable nature. So researchers are intended to develop biodegradable plastics which can be completely disposed‐off by microbial enzymatic degradation.
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Why is it important?
The biodegradable plastics or “bioplastics” such as PHB is most intensively used for the innovative bio-medical applications owing to suitable combination of biocompatibility, transport characteristics,and mechanical properties. These challenging aspects of PHB can be used for designing of novel medical devices, in tissue engineering, and for systematic sustained drug delivery.
Perspectives
This review highlighted all the relevant information of PHB and PHB‐degrading enzymes starting with basic classification, synthesis,mechanism, and applications that are environment friendly and are of public interest.
Dr Mohammed Kuddus
University of Hail
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This page is a summary of: PHB (poly-β-hydroxybutyrate) and its enzymatic degradation, Polymers for Advanced Technologies, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/pat.4126.
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