ArticlePolymers2025
Comparative Effects of Various Plasticizers on the Physicochemical Characteristics of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Film for Food Packaging.
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- Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB): Critical Perspectives on Material Properties, Production Advances, and Challenges Toward Sustainable Commercialisation.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Tailoring the Microstructure and Functional Properties of Plasticized Alginate Films via Orange Essential Oil Incorporation and CaACS omega · 2026Article
- Advances in Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production, Volume 4.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
This work examined the effects of four plasticizers, glycerol (GLY), potassium phosphate (PHOS), polyethylene glycol (PEG), and soy lecithin (SL), on the structural, surface, thermal, optical, and mechanical properties of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) films. FTIR spectra demonstrated that these plasticizers maintained the PHB molecular structure, while X-ray diffraction data proved that PHB crystallinity decreased upon adding SL, GLY, and PHOS. Under SEM, we discovered several defects in the plasticized samples, most of which were holes of distinct sizes and forms. The thermal analyses evaluated the impact of plasticization on PHB thermal processability, demonstrating that the material's thermal stability improved, easing thermal processing due to the reduced melting peak temperatures (T
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