Investigation on the Use of Microorganisms in the Microbiological Breakdown of Synthetic Polymers

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For product engineers looking for features with a long lifetime, polymer applications provide appealing molecular architectures. These qualities play a significant role in how long plastics or polymers can last in the environment. Recent reports of microbial breakdown of polymeric materials give new emerging technological alternatives to change the significant pollution issue incurred via use of polymers/plastics. There is a substantial body of literature from which prospective biological technology future development paths might be inferred. To supply the database from which a new technique was built, each report of microbial driven polymer degradation must be characterized in great detail. The kinetics of the degradation process must be addressed as part of the development, and novel methods to accelerate the rate of deterioration must be discovered. The quest to design new technologies involves an implicit awareness of how biotic and abiotic deterioration interact. Plastics Synthetic polymers microbiological degradation biofilm degree of degradation deterioration of degradation Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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