The manufacturing and consumption of plastic products have steadily increased over the past decades due to rising global demand, resulting not only in the depletion of petroleum …
BE Morales-Contreras, N Flórez-Fernández… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The search of sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to obtain compounds for different industrial sectors has grown exponentially. Following the principles of biorefinery …
Biopolymers are highly desirable alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics owing to their biodegradable nature. The production of bioplastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates …
The development of more efficient and sustainable technologies for the recovery of valuable compounds holds the ability to change the paradigm of the use of resources. Electric field …
M Koller, KMRR Simon - Current Research in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Haloarchaea comprise the extremely halophilic branch of the phylum Euryarchaeota and they are members of the prokaryotic domain Archaea. They thrive best in extremely saline …
V Angra, R Sehgal, R Gupta - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Along with the wide applications of conventional plastics, they have a large number of disadvantages like their non-biodegradable nature, dependency on fossil fuels and the …
The present study tested the outdoor cultivation of Haloferax mediterranei for PHA production from green macroalgae Ulva sp. in pneumatically agitated bioreactors and …
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polymers that can replace conventional plastics in different sectors. However, PHA commercialization is …
DR Leadbeater, NC Bruce, T Tonon - Microbial Genomics, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
There is an urgent need to replace petroleum-based plastic with bio-based and biodegradable alternatives. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are attractive prospective …