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S. No. Polymer
Microorganisms
Experimental
period
Enzyme group
Product of degradation
Analytical
evidence
References
24.
Polyethylene
terephthalate
Ideonella sakaiensis
15 days
Polyethylene
terephthalate,
mono-2hydroxyethyl
terephthalate
Terephthalic acid,
Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate, Mono(2hydroxyethyl)
terephthalate
Carbon dioxide
evolution, weight
loss, SEM, NMR,
HPLC,
transcriptomic
expression
Yoshida et al.
(2016)
25.
Polyethylene,
polystyrene
Rhodococcus ruber
3 days
Laccase,
extracellular
oxidases, and
putative
dehydrogenases
–
FTIR,GPC,
transcriptomics
and lipidomics
expression
Gravouil et al.
(2017)
26.
Polycaprolactone
and
Polyvinylchloride
films
Aspergillus brasiliensis,
Penicillium
funiculosum,
Chaetomium globosum,
Trichoderma virens,
Paecilomyces variotii
28 days
–
–
Morphological
observation, mass
loss, optical
microscopy, and
SEM
Vivi et al.
(2018)
ATR-FTIR
Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared, GPC
gel permeation chromatography, XRD
X-ray diffraction, SEM
scanning electron
microscopy, NMR
nuclear magnetic resonance, LC IT TOF MS
liquid chromatograph ion trap time of flight mass spectrometer, HPLC
high performance liquid
chromatography, DSC
differential scanning calorimetry, HT-GPC
high temperature gel permeation chromatography
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