Galgali Padmaja, Varma Anjani J, Puntambekar Ulka S, Gokhale Digambar V
Polymer Science & Engineering Group, Chemical Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Dec 7(23):2884-5. doi: 10.1039/b209254a.
A hypothesis was developed, and successfully tested, to greatly increase the rates of biodegradation of polyolefins, by anchoring minute quantities of glucose, sucrose or lactose, onto functionalized polystyrene (polystyrene-co-maleic anhydride copolymer) and measuring their rates of biodegradation, which were found to be significantly improved.
