PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES AND BIODEGRADABILITY OF MICROBIAL POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE-CO-3-HYDROXYHEXANOATE)
PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES AND BIODEGRADABILITY OF MICROBIAL POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE-CO-3-HYDROXYHEXANOATE)
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DOI:
10.1021/ma00081a041
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发表时间:
1994-01-31
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影响因子:
5.5
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DOI, Y
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作者:
SHIMAMURA, E;KASUYA, K;DOI, Y
Introduction. An optically active copolymer of (R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid (3HB) and CR)-3-hydroxyvaleric acid (3HV) has recently been introduced by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) as a biodegradable thermo-plastic. 1 The copolyester has been producedin a fer-mentation process using glucose and propionic acid as the carbon sources for Alcaligenes eutrophus. 2 The microbial copolyesters have a statistically random distribution of 3HB and 3HV units, 3-5 andthey exhibit approximately the same high degree of crystallinity (> 50%) throughout a wide range of compositions from 0 to 95 mol% 3HV, since P (3HB-co-3HV) copolymers crystallize in the same crystalline lattice as homopolymers of the main compo-nent. 4-6· 7 The mechanical and physical properties varied with the copolymer composition. 6-12 The rate of enzymatic surface erosion of P (3HB-co-3HV) films by P (3HB) depolymerase was slower than the rate of P (3HB) film. 13· 14 Recently, Shiotani and Kobayashi15 have found that Aeromonas caviae produces a copolymer of 3HB and 3-hydroxyhexanoate (3HH) from olive oil. In this paper we investigate the structure, physical properties, and enzymatic degradability of P (3HB-co-3HH) copolymers and compare the results with those of P (3HB-co-3HV). A terpolymer of 3HB, 3HV, and 3HH was first produced in Rhodospillium rubrum. 16