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ReviewArchives of microbiology2023

Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates from renewable resources: a review on prospects, challenges and applications.

Richa Prasad Mahato, Saurabh Kumar, Padma Singh

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Review in Archives of microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Richa Prasad MahatoDepartment of Microbiology, Kanya Gurukul Campus, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, 249407, India. prasadricha333@gmail.com.
Saurabh KumarBioprospection and Product Development Division, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, 226015, India.
Padma SinghDepartment of Microbiology, Kanya Gurukul Campus, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, 249407, India.
Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya · INCentral Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioplastics replace synthetic plastics of petrochemical origin, which contributes challenge to both polymer quality and economics. Novel polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)-composite materials, with desirable product quality, could be developed, thus targeting the global plastics market, in the coming years. It is possible that PHA can be a greener substitute for their petroleum-based competitors since they are simply decomposed, which may lessen the pressure on municipal and industrial waste management systems. PHA production has proven to be the bottleneck in industrial application and commercialization because of the high price of carbon substrates and downstream processes required to achieve reliability. Bacterial PHA production by these municipal and industrial wastes, which act as a cheap, renewable carbon substrate, eliminates waste management hassles and acts as an efficient substitute for synthetic plastics. In the present review, challenges and opportunities related to the commercialization of polyhydroxyalkanoates are discussed and presented. Moreover, it discusses critical steps of their production process, feedstock evaluation, optimization strategies, and downstream processes. This information may provide us the complete utilization of bacterial PHA during possible applications in packaging, nutrition, medicine, and pharmaceuticals.

Indexed as

PolyhydroxyalkanoatesBacteriaCarbonIndustrial WastePlasticsReproducibility of ResultsCarbonIndustrial WastePlasticsPolyhydroxyalkanoatesApplications of PHABiocompatibilityBiodegradabilityDownstream processPetrochemical plasticPolyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)Upstream process

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PMID37017747
OpenAlexW4362602480

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