“…Biodegradable polymers for short-term applications have attracted attention from all over the world in sectors such as surgery, pharmacology, agriculture and environment (Luckachan & Pillai, 2011). Polymeric materials from reneweable sources have been frequently studied, for instance, bioplastics produced from cellulose (Bilo et al, 2018;Biswas, Saha, Lawton, Shogren & Willett, 2006;Candido & Gonçalves, 2016;Cao et al, 2018;Cerqueira, Rodrigues Filho & Meireles, 2007;Cruz et al, 2011;Fan et al, 2013;Loo, Hashim & Leh, 2012;Rodrigues Filho et al, 2008;Zhang, Huang, Jiang, Huang & Yang, 2013), proteins, chitin (Ramakrishnan, Sharma, Gupta & Alashwal, 2018), among others.…”