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Metabolic engineering of poly (3-hydroxyalkanoates): from DNA to plastic

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[No authors listed]
GSID: MZOwrsXB9KoJ
LL Madison, GW Huisman - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol

SUMMARY Poly (3-hydroxyalkanoates)(PHAs) are a class of microbially produced polyesters that have potential applications as conventional plastics, specifically …

Cycloaliphatic polyester-based high-solids polyurethane coatings: II. The effect of difunctional acid

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program AND Program Evaluation

Soucek MD.
GSID: tdHD9PPsE_8J
H Ni, JL Daum, PR Thiltgen, MD Soucek… - Progress in organic …, 2002 - Elsevier

Two series of polyesters were synthesized with isomeric cyclohexane diacids. The first series of polyesters was synthesized with 1, 4-cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and three cycloaliphatic difunctional acids, 1, 4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid (1, 4-CHDA), 1, 3-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid (1, 3-CHDA), or hexahydrophthalic anhydride...

Nanoparticles from renewable polymers.

Frontiers in chemistry

Wurm FR, Weiss CK.
PMID: 25101259
Front Chem. 2014 Jul 18;2:49. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00049. eCollection 2014.

The use of polymers from natural resources can bring many benefits for novel polymeric nanoparticle systems. Such polymers have a variety of beneficial properties such as biodegradability and biocompatibility, they are readily available on large scale and at low...

Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of O-Carboxyanhydrides Using a β-Diiminate Zinc Catalyst.

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

Wang R, Zhang J, Yin Q, Xu Y, Cheng J, Tong R.
PMID: 27634170
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Oct 10;55(42):13010-13014. doi: 10.1002/anie.201605508.

Recently O-carboxyanhydrides (OCAs) have emerged as a class of viable monomers which can undergo ring-opening polymerization (ROP) to prepare poly(α-hydroxyalkanoic acid) with functional groups that are typically difficult to achieve by ROP of lactones. Organocatalysts for the ROP of...

Biodegradable PEG-Based Amphiphilic Block Copolymers for Tissue Engineering Applications.

ACS biomaterials science & engineering

Kutikov AB, Song J.
PMID: 27175443
ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2015 Jul 13;1(7):463-480. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00122. Epub 2015 May 26.

Biodegradable tissue engineering scaffolds have great potential for delivering cells/therapeutics and supporting tissue formation. Polyesters, the most extensively investigated biodegradable synthetic polymers, are not ideally suited for diverse tissue engineering applications due to limitations associated with their hydrophobicity. This...

Synthetic biodegradable functional polymers for tissue engineering: a brief review.

Science China. Chemistry

BaoLin G, Ma PX.
PMID: 25729390
Sci China Chem. 2014 Apr 01;57(4):490-500. doi: 10.1007/s11426-014-5086-y.

Scaffolds play a crucial role in tissue engineering. Biodegradable polymers with great processing flexibility are the predominant scaffolding materials. Synthetic biodegradable polymers with well-defined structure and without immunological concerns associated with naturally derived polymers are widely used in tissue...

The effect of mechanical loads on the degradation of aliphatic biodegradable polyesters.

Regenerative biomaterials

Li Y, Chu Z, Li X, Ding X, Guo M, Zhao H, Yao J, Wang L, Cai Q, Fan Y.
PMID: 28596915
Regen Biomater. 2017 Jun;4(3):179-190. doi: 10.1093/rb/rbx009. Epub 2017 Apr 17.

Aliphatic biodegradable polyesters have been the most widely used synthetic polymers for developing biodegradable devices as alternatives for the currently used permanent medical devices. The performances during biodegradation process play crucial roles for final realization of their functions. Because...

Beyond stereoselectivity, switchable catalysis: some of the last frontier challenges in ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Guillaume SM, Kirillov E, Sarazin Y, Carpentier JF.
PMID: 25832549
Chemistry. 2015 May 26;21(22):7988-8003. doi: 10.1002/chem.201500613. Epub 2015 Apr 01.

Metal-based catalysts and initiators have played a pivotal role in the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters, thanks to their high activity and remarkable ability to control precisely the architectures of the resulting polyesters in terms of molar mass,...

Mass spectrometry for the elucidation of the subtle molecular structure of biodegradable polymers and their degradation products.

Mass spectrometry reviews

Kowalczuk M, Adamus G.
PMID: 25869251
Mass Spectrom Rev. 2016 Jan-Feb;35(1):188-98. doi: 10.1002/mas.21474. Epub 2015 Apr 13.

Contemporary reports by Polish authors on the application of mass spectrometric methods for the elucidation of the subtle molecular structure of biodegradable polymers and their degradation products will be presented. Special emphasis will be given to natural aliphatic (co)polyesters...

Optical Behaviors of Cholesteric Liquid-Crystalline Polyester Composites with Various Chiral Photochromic Dopants.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids

Chien CC, Liu JH.
PMID: 26636344
Langmuir. 2015 Dec 15;31(49):13410-9. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03201. Epub 2015 Dec 04.

New developments in the field of chiral nematic liquid crystals, such as color displays, are now being widely proposed. This article describes the tunable incident reflection band based on composite materials of low-molecular-weight chiroptical dopants and polymeric networks. These...

Correction: One-pot atom-efficient synthesis of bio-renewable polyesters and cyclic carbonates through tandem catalysis.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Jia F, Chen X, Zheng Y, Qin Y, Tao Y, Wang X.
PMID: 26646985
Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jan 07;52(2):418. doi: 10.1039/c5cc90556g. Epub 2015 Dec 08.

Correction for 'One-pot atom-efficient synthesis of bio-renewable polyesters and cyclic carbonates through tandem catalysis' by Fan Jia et al., Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 8504-8507.

Data on synthesis of oligomeric and polymeric poly(butylene adipate-co-butylene terephthalate) model substrates for the investigation of enzymatic hydrolysis.

Data in brief

Perz V, Bleymaier K, Sinkel C, Kueper U, Bonnekessel M, Ribitsch D, Guebitz GM.
PMID: 26981550
Data Brief. 2016 Feb 19;7:291-8. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.02.029. eCollection 2016 Jun.

The aliphatic-aromatic copolyester poly(butylene adipate-co-butylene terephthalate) (PBAT), also known as ecoflex, contains adipic acid, 1,4-butanediol and terephthalic acid and is proven to be compostable [1], [2], [3]). We describe here data for the synthesis and analysis of poly(butylene adipate-co-butylene...

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