[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoate bio-production and its rise as biomaterial of the future

T Palmeiro-Sánchez, V O'Flaherty, PNL Lens - Journal of biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
The first observation of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) aggregate was in 1888 by
Beijenrinck. Despite polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) being the first type of PHA discovered, it …

Bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates-eco-friendly next generation plastic: production, biocompatibility, biodegradation, physical properties and applications

Muhammadi, Shabina, M Afzal… - Green Chemistry Letters …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are intracellular aliphatic polyesters synthesized as energy
reserves, in the form of water-insoluble, nano-sized discrete and optically dense granules in …

Biotechnological approaches for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in microorganisms and plants—a review

P Suriyamongkol, R Weselake, S Narine… - Biotechnology …, 2007 - Elsevier
The increasing effect of non-degradable plastic wastes is a growing concern.
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), macromolecule-polyesters naturally produced by many …

Strategies for PHA production by mixed cultures and renewable waste materials

LS Serafim, PC Lemos, MGE Albuquerque… - Applied microbiology …, 2008 - Springer
Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) by mixed cultures has been widely studied in
the last decade. Storage of PHA by mixed microbial cultures occurs under transient …

Microbial fuel cell in enhancing anaerobic biodegradation of diesel

JM Morris, S Jin, B Crimi, A Pruden - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2009 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology can potentially be applied to enhance subsurface
bioremediation of contaminants such as petroleum hydrocarbons by providing an …

A review on the conversion of volatile fatty acids to polyhydroxyalkanoates using dark fermentative effluents from hydrogen production

G Kumar, VK Ponnusamy, RR Bhosale, S Shobana… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
The production of bio/microbial-based polymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from
volatile fatty acids (VFAs) of dark fermentative effluents in the bio-H 2 reactor is being paid …

Application of (R)-3-Hydroxyalkanoate Methyl Esters Derived from Microbial Polyhydroxyalkanoates as Novel Biofuels

X Zhang, R Luo, Z Wang, Y Deng, GQ Chen - Biomacromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) were proposed for the first time as a new type of
biofuel. In this paper, poly-R-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and medium chain length PHA (mcl …

Mixed-culture polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production integrated into a food-industry effluent biological treatment: A pilot-scale evaluation

F Morgan-Sagastume, S Bengtsson… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Production of a mixed microbial culture (MMC) biomass for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)
production was integrated into the wastewater treatment (WWT) of a potato-starch factory. A …

Characterisation of open, mixed microbial cultures for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production

F Morgan-Sagastume - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2016 - Springer
Viable processes have emerged for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) via
open, mixed microbial cultures (MMC). MMC PHA production is increasingly integrated into …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates: An exotic gleam in the gloomy tale of plastics

K Prajapati, R Nayak, A Shukla, P Parmar… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2021 - Springer
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are bio-polyesters of hydroxyalkanoates that accumulate
intracellularly in case of prokaryotes, as cytoplasmic granules, under carbon rich and paucity …