Degradable packaging materials: Sources, application and decomposition routes

Evaluation of three blackberry fruit types in Bio-degradable and nonbio-degradable packaging types

Nature or petrochemistry?-biologically degradable materials.

Naturally occurring polymers have been utilized for a long time as materials, however, their application as plastics has been restricted because of their limited thermoplastic processability. Recently, the microbial synthesis of polyesters directly from carbohydrate sources has attracted considerable attention. The industrial-scale production of poly(lactic acid) from lactic acid generated by f...

Degradable polymeric materials for osteosynthesis: tutorial.

This report summarizes the state of the art and recent developments and advances in the use of degradable polymers devices for osteosynthesis. The current generation of biodegradable polymeric implants for bone repair utilising designs copied from metal implants, originates from the concept that devices should be supportive and as "inert" substitute to bone tissue. Today degradable polymeric de...

Food packaging--roles, materials, and environmental issues.

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to update readers on food packaging and its impact on the environment.

Pattern Decomposition with Complex Combinatorial Constraints: Application to Materials Discovery

Identifying important components or factors in large amounts of noisy data is a key problem in machine learning and data mining. Motivated by a pattern decomposition problem in materials discovery, aimed at discovering new materials for renewable energy, e.g. for fuel and solar cells, we introduce CombiFD, a framework for factor based pattern decomposition that allows the incorporation of a-pri...