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http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/16429| Title: | Environmentally degradable-thermoplastics: An overview |
| Authors: | Anuradha, M Kumar, V G ` |
| Issue Date: | May-1999 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | One of the key environmental issues facing the world today is the plastic waste disposal problem and one of the approaches in solving this problem has been the development of environmentally degradable thermoplastics. A concise review of environmentally degradable materials is provided in the report. Both mechanisms of degradability, photodegradation and biodegradation are provided. The nature of the study necessitates a deeper understanding of biodegradable materials. Hence, materials, criteria, mechanism of degradation and evaluation methods are discussed. The objective in undertaking a review of environmentally degradable thermoplastics has been two-fold: (i) to establish a database on the development of environmentally degradable thermoplastics and (ii) more fundamentally, to look at the basic mechanism and criteria for biodegradability. |
| Page(s): | 525-537 |
| Appears in Collections: | IJC-B Vol.38B(05) [May 1999] |
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