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Challenges and Opportunities for Customizing Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Mamtesh Singh,Prasun Kumar,Subhasree Ray,V. Kalia

2015 · DOI: 10.1007/s12088-015-0528-6
Indian Journal of Microbiology · 131 Citations

TLDR

Polyhydroxyalkanoates as an alternative to synthetic plastics have been gaining increasing attention, but PHB being homopolymers are quite brittle, less elastic and have thermal properties which are not suitable for processing them into sturdy products.