Chemists redesign biological PHAs, 'dream' biodegradable plastics

ScienceDaily
Apr 13, 2023, 7:43 pm72 pts
They've been called 'dream' plastics: polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Already the basis of a fledgling industry, they're a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms, or synthetically produced from biorenewable feedstocks. They're biodegradable in the ambient environment, including oceans and…

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