Synthesis and characterisation study on the structure and property of biodegradable copolyester of PET/ɛCL; PET/PCL; PET/PGA

• Main Author: Wong, Yong Xing.
• Other Authors: Marc Jean Medard Abadie
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44776
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, the production of PET bottles for packaging purposes has been increasing at a very fast rate. Hence, recycling of PET waste bottles has been a major concern over these few years as PET takes hundreds of years to degrade by landfill method. Although several chemical recycling methods...