Plastics from Bacteria Natural Functions and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chen, George Guo-Qiang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Microbiology Monographs, 14
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biotechnology.; Microbiology.; Genetic engineering.; Bacteriology.; Life Sciences.; Applied Microbiology.; Genetic Engineering.

Due to the possibility that petroleum supplies will be exhausted in the next decades to come, more and more attention has been paid to the production of bacterial pl- tics including polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), polylactic acid (PLA), poly(butylene succinate) (PBS), biopolyethylene (PE), poly(trimeth...