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Marine water, marine sediment and soil laboratory-scale systems were designed to carefully control exposure conditions, simulate environments and accelerate rates of degradation of polymer films. Polymer films studied include polysaccharides, thermoplastic bacterial polyesters and polymer blends. Films were characterized for changes in physical and chemical properties including surface appearance by SEM, weight changes, changes in mechanical strength, crystallinity, molecular weight by GPC and IR. Data collected on degradation kinetics in the accelerated systems will be correlated with data from polymer films studied in outdoor exposures in related marine and soil environments.
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Mayer, J.M. (1990). Degradation Kinetics of Polymer Films in Marine and Soil Systems under Accelerated Conditions. In: Dawes, E.A. (eds) Novel Biodegradable Microbial Polymers. NATO ASI Series, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2129-0_49
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