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ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Fabrication of Porous Materials from Natural/Synthetic Biopolymers and Their Composites.

Udeni Gunathilake T M Sampath, Yern Chee Ching, Cheng Hock Chuah, Johari J Sabariah, Pai-Chen Lin

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Review in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Udeni Gunathilake T M SampathDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. sampath@gmail.com.
Yern Chee ChingDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. chingyc@um.edu.my.
Cheng Hock ChuahDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. chchuah@um.edu.my.
Johari J SabariahDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. sabariah@gmail.my.
Pai-Chen LinDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 621 Chiayi Country, Taiwan. impcl@ccu.edu.tw.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biopolymers and their applications have been widely studied in recent years. Replacing the oil based polymer materials with biopolymers in a sustainable manner might give not only a competitive advantage but, in addition, they possess unique properties which cannot be emulated by conventional polymers. This review covers the fabrication of porous materials from natural biopolymers (cellulose, chitosan, collagen), synthetic biopolymers (poly(lactic acid), poly(lactic-

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biocompositesfabricationnatural biopolymersporositysustainablesynthetic biopolymers

Identifiers

PMID28774113
PMCPMC5456954

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