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Article: Preparation and characterization of biodegradable agar/poly(butylene adipate-co-terephatalate) composites.(Report)
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
Biodegradable polymers blending with low-price organic fillers to produce composites are an alternative to solve pollution problems and have attracted considerable attention as green materials. Among commercially available biodegradable polymers, biopolyesters have shown similar properties of nonbiodegradable polymers. Some aliphatic and aromatic polyesters are one of the most important classes of the synthetic biodegradable polymers available in a variety of types. For instance, polycaprolac-tone (PCL), polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), poly(3-hydroxy-butyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalcratc) Biopol[R], poly(lactic acid) or poly(l-lactide) (PLA), poly(butylene ...