The development of biodegradable and compostable materials as alternative to fossil-based
plastics is today of paramount importance. Polybutylene succinate (PBS) is a class of …

The impact of plastics on the environment can be mitigated by employing biobased and/or
biodegradable materials (ie, bioplastics) instead of the traditional “commodities”. In this …

The crystallization kinetics of semicrystalline polymers is often studied with isothermal
experiments and analyzed by fitting the data with analytical expressions of the Avrami and …

Poly (butylene succinate) is one of the emerging bio-degradable polymers, which has huge
potential to be employed in a wide range of applications. Furthermore, it is also recognized …

A series of poly (ethylene furanoate-co-terephthalate)(PEFT) copolymers, with compositions
ranging from neat poly (ethylene furanoate)(PEF) to poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET), was …

The problems of fossil-based resources and pollution caused by traditional nondegradable
polymers have led to the need for biobased monomers and polyesters, presenting more …

We have characterized a series of aliphatic polycarbonates synthesized by organocatalysis
containing a variable number of methylene groups (n CH2) in their repeating units ranging …

Random copolymerization is used to prepare new polymeric materials that combine the
desirable properties of different homopolymers. The covalent bonds between the …

Successive Self-nucleation and Annealing (SSA) is a thermal fractionation technique that is
performed by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The combination of non-isothermal …

Four series of random aliphatic copolyesters derived from 1, 6-hexanediol and different
diacids were designed and synthesized to investigate the effect of chain length of aliphatic …