Metabolix, Inc. to Develop Advanced Industrial Oilseed Crops for Bioplastic and Biofuel Production

EcoGen – Transitioning Plastics Toward A New Ecological Generation – EcoGen News

Publication / Science Direct / Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells : Biodegradable polymer solar cells

Stephen P. McCarthy / U Mass Lowell

http://bprc.caeds.eng.uml.edu/vitea.pdf

University of Massachusetts Lowell
Department of Plastics Engineering
One University Avenue
Lowell, MA 01854
Tel. 978-934-3417/Fax. 978-934-3065
Email: stephen_mccarthy@uml.edu

Offre de postdoc / Synthèse de superabsorbants biodégradables par extrusion réactive

Offre de post doc / MISE AU POINT DE MATERIAUX INNOVANTS ISSUS DE RESSOURCES RENOUVELABLES POUR LES INDUSTRIES DE L’EMBALLAGE ET DU CONDITIONNEMENT / Reims

Cereplast Partners with Pace Industries to Develop Biodegradable Printable Plastic Material

Cereplast Selected by CSI/Cosmolab to Develop Bioplastic Products for Cosmetics Packaging: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance

Japanese scientists achieve effective bio-plastics degradation using yeast found in cultivating rice

Cereplast to Provide Bioplastic Resin for Harco Enterprises’ New Product Line

2008-03-10 17:14:44 -

WWW.CEREPLAST.COM – Cereplast, Inc. (OTCBB:CERP), manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics, announced that it is supplying bioplastic resin for a new line of environmentally friendly products developed by Harco Enterprises Ltd, an Ontario, Canada-based company which creates a full line of custom and standard plastic items, for the promotional, restaurant and nightclub world.

Publication / ACS / Macromolecules / Crystalline Lamellae and Surface Morphology of Biodegradable Polyhydroxyalkanoate Thin Films: Thermal Behavior and Comparison between Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) and Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)

Macromolecules, 41 (5), 1713 -1719, 2008.

Katsuhito Mori, Shota Mukoyama, Ying Zhang, Harumi Sato, Yukihiro Ozaki, Hikaru Terauchi, Isao Noda, and Isao Takahashi*

Publication / ACS / Macromolecules / Crystallization of Ultrathin Films of Polylactides: From Chain Chirality to Lamella Curvature and Twisting

Macromolecules, 41 (5), 1705 -1712, 2008. 10.1021/ma071306u S0024-9297(07)01306-X
Web Release Date: February 8, 2008

Structural Effects of Terminal Groups on Nonenzymatic and Enzymatic Degradations of End-Capped Poly(L-lactide)

Structural Effects of Terminal Groups on Nonenzymatic and Enzymatic Degradations of End-Capped Poly(L-lactide)
Kenji Kurokawa, Koichi Yamashita, Yoshiharu Doi, and Hideki Abe
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm701259r

Biomacromolecules, 9 (3), 1071–1078, 2008

Fabrication and Characterization of Poly(lactic acid)/Acetyl Tributyl Citrate/Carbon Black as Conductive Polymer Composites

Fabrication and Characterization of Poly(lactic acid)/Acetyl Tributyl Citrate/Carbon Black as Conductive Polymer Composites
Jiugao Yu, Ning Wang, and Xiaofei Ma
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm7012857

Biomacromolecules, 9 (3), 1050–1057, 2008.

Effect of Filler Content and Size on Transport Properties of Water Vapor in PLA/Calcium Sulfate Composites

Effect of Filler Content and Size on Transport Properties of Water Vapor in PLA/Calcium Sulfate Composites
Giuliana Gorrasi, Vittoria Vittoria, Marius Murariu, Amália Da Silva Ferreira, Michaël Alexandre, and Philippe Dubois
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm700568n

Biomacromolecules, 9 (3), 984–990, 2008.

Publication / ACS / Biomacromolecules / New Approach to Elaborate Exfoliated Starch-Based Nanobiocomposites

New Approach to Elaborate Exfoliated Starch-Based Nanobiocomposites
Frédéric Chivrac, Eric Pollet, Marc Schmutz, and Luc Avérous
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm7012668

Biomacromolecules, 9 (3), 896–900, 2008.

Publication / ScienceDirect – Polymer : A Morphological Study of Poly(Butylene Succinate)/Poly(Butylene Adipate) Blends with Different Blend Ratios and Crystallization Processes

Publication / ScienceDirect – Polymer Degradation and Stability : Ageing of polylactide and polylactide nanocomposite filaments

Polymer Degradation and Stability
Volume 93, Issue 3, March 2008, Pages 707-713

Ageing of polylactide and polylactide nanocomposite filaments

Publication / ScienceDirect – Polymer Degradation and Stability : Effects of mechanical load on the degradation of poly(d,l-lactic acid) foam

Publication / ScienceDirect – Polymer Degradation and Stability : Self-accelerated biodegradation of electrospun poly(ethylene glycol)–poly(l-lactide) membranes by loading proteinase K

Offre de poste / Ecole polytechnique universitaire de Lille, chimie des polymères et biomatériaux

Biostrength™ Impact Modifiers / Arkema

Arkema développe deux additifs Biostrenght 130 et 150 addaptés à l’amélioration de la tenue au choc du PLA

Très intéressant, cliquer sur le lien pour voir le film.

Biostrength™ Impact Modifiers

PS: un autre additif “biostrength 700″ “Melt Strength Enhancer” est également développé

A la recherche de fournisseurs de biomatériaux / listing

Trade Name Company

Agro-resources based polyesters:

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)
(PHB, PHBV) Biopol Monsanto-Metabolix (USA)*
(PHB, PHBV) Metabolix Metabolix/ADM (USA)
(PHB, PHBV) Enmat Tianan (China)
(PHB, PHBV) Biocycle Copersucar / PHB industrial (Brazil)
(PHB, PHBV) Biomer L Biomer (Germany)
(PHBHx, PHBO, PHBOd) Nodax Procter & Gamble (USA)

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA)
Natureworks Cargill-Dow LLC (USA)
Lacty Shimadzu (Japan)
Lacea Mitsui Chemicals (Japan)
Heplon Chronopol (USA)
CPLA Dainippon Ink Chem. (Japan)
Eco Plastic Toyota (Japan)
PLA Galactic (Belgium)
Treofan Treofan (Netherland)
L- PLA Purac (Netherland)
Ecoloju Mitsubishi (Japan)
Biomer L Biomer (Germany)

Petroleum-based polyesters:

Polycaprolactone (PCL)
CAPA Solvay (Belgium)
Tone Union Carbide (USA)
Celgreen Daicel (Japan)

Polyesteramide (PEA)
BAK Bayer (Germany)*

Aliphatic copolyesters (PBSA …)
Bionolle Showa Highpolymer (Japan)
EnPol Ire Chemical ltd (Korea)
Skygreen SK Chemicals (Korea)
Lunare SE Nippon shokubai (Japan)

Aromatic copolyesters (PBAT…)
Eastar Bio Eastman Chemical (USA)*
Ecoflex BASF (Germany)
Biomax Dupont(USA)
Origo-Bi Novamont (Italy)

(*) The production of these polyesters has been stopped.

Biodegradable polyesters: PLA, PCL, PHA …

Aller voir aussi le lien sur Arte, qui parle de PHBV,

http://www.arte.tv/fr/Videos-sur-ARTE-TV/2151166,CmC=2344642.html

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