Sentence examples for biodegradable substitutes from inspiring English sources

PHAs have been attracting considerable attention as biodegradable substitutes for conventional polymers.

There are alternative, reusable or biodegradable substitutes available now, with today's technology.

On a recent visit to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, I broke away to visit Ecovative Design, a remarkable 40-employee firm creating packaging for Dell Computer, wine shippers and other clients by turning fungi and farm waste into a durable and biodegradable substitute for foam.

Due to its favorable physical properties such as low melting point (60°C), low glass transition temperature (−60°C), hydrophobicity, and crystallinity which resemble those of conventional plastics, PCL is being used as a biodegradable substitute for non-degradable plastics (Tokiwa and Calabia 2004, Tokiwa et al. 2009).

Cyanophycin can be chemically converted into a polymer with a reduced arginine content, which might be used like poly-aspartic acid as a biodegradable substitute for synthetic polyacrylate in various technical processes (Schwamborn 1998).

Cyanophycin is of biotechnological interest because the purified polymer can be chemically converted into a polymer with reduced arginine content (Joentgen et al. 1998), which might be used like poly-aspartic acid as a biodegradable substitute for synthetic polyacrylate in various technical processes.

Our objective is to develop a synthetic biodegradable replacement dermal substitute for tissue engineering of skin and oral mucosa.

The normal tabletops have been replaced by slabs of mycelium, the all-natural and biodegradable plastics substitute that Ian Frazier wrote about for this magazine in 2013.

Biodegradable PHA substitute more and more petrochemical plastics due to their physical and structural properties (Rawte and Mavinkurve 2002).

In contrast, we report a successful scaffold-free engineering of ZCC to integrate tissue-engineered cartilage and a porous biodegradable bone substitute, using sheep bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) as the cell source for both cartilaginous zones.

The objective of this study was to test whether our polymeric scaffold is able to resist the corrosive action of bile and to support a cell's infiltration and neoangiogenesis with the aim of using it as a biodegradable tissue substitute for serious bile duct injuries.