Approaches to biodegradable polymers

The biodegradability of polymers depends on the inherent constituent elements, linkages, moieties and components which are present in the system, along with the external factors discussed above. Thus biodegradability of polymer can be achieved by the following approaches  

7 SEM micrograph of (a) a vegetable oil-based epoxy resin and (b) a commercial PVC blend. 

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Recently, enzyme-catalysed polymer synthesis has been established as another approach to biodegradable polymer preparation [35-37]. 

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