Ian C. Bowater

TL;DR: Several blends have been prepared of polyvinyl alcohol, starch and glycerol, and their modified forms have been characterised by atomic force microscopy, x-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, contact angle measurements, 13C-NMR spectrograms, and scanning electron microscopy.

TL;DR: A number of standard methods have been developed to estimate the extent of biodegradability of polymers under various conditions and with a variety of organisms as mentioned in this paper, but there is much overlap between the standards of different countries and wide scope for development of consistent and international standards.

TL;DR: In this paper, the lowest PVA content film (20%) was selected as a polymer with enough PVA to impart important physical characteristics, but also enough starch to be considered biodegradable.

TL;DR: This work reports on the successful incorporation of the antimalarial drug, halofantrine, into laboratory based soybean oil emulsions which were designed to mimic the commercially available parenteral fat emulsion, Intralipid®.

TL;DR: In this article, a system has been developed for studying the biodegradation of natural and synthetic polymeric material based on standard methods developed by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN TC 261) (ISO/DIS 14855) and the American Society of Testing Materials, 'ASTM D 5338-92'.