Hydrolyzable poly(ethylene terephthalate)

Polyethylene and biodegradable mulches for agricultural applications: a review

“…6 Factors affecting biodegradation (Kijchavengkul and Auras 2008) polymers, such as polycaprolactone (Toncheva et al 1996;Jun et al 1994), are also depolymerized by microbial enzymes, after which the monomers are absorbed into microbial cells and biodegraded (Goldberg 1995). Abiotic hydrolysis is the most important reaction for initiating the environmental degradation of synthetic polymers (Gopferich 1998) like polycarboxylates (Winursito and Matsumura, 1996), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (Heidary and Gordon 1994), polylactic acid and their copolymers (Hiltunen et al 1997;Nakayama et al 1996), poly (α-glutamic acids) (Fan et al 1996), and polydimethylsiloxanes, or silicones (Xu et al 1998).…”

A review on the potential biodegradability of poly(ethylene terephthalate)

“…Heidary and Gordon 48,49 reported the synthesis and degradation properties of hydrodegradable poly(ethylene terephthalate-co-ethylene adipate) by simple ester exchange in the melt-state of PET and poly(ethylene adipate) (PEA). Stannous octoate was again used for catalysing the reaction.…”

Synthesis, crystallization and hydrolysis of aromatic–aliphatic copolyester: Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)-co-poly(l-lactic acid)

“…Such as poly(ethylene adipate-coterephthalate) copolyesters [5,6], poly(ethylene terephthalate)-copoly(3-caprolactone) [7,8], poly(ethylene terephthalate)-co-poly (butylene adipate-co-succinate) [9], Poly(ethylene-co-diethylene terephthalate)-co-poly(L-lactic acid) [10] and poly(ethylene terephthalate)-co-poly(1,4-butylene succinate) copolyesters [11] were prepared. Generally, aromaticealiphatic copolyesters with up to 40 mol% degradable aliphatic units are biodegradable [12e14].…”