{"id":15527,"date":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111206-03n"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:00:00","slug":"researchers-explore-electroactive-medical-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/researchers-explore-electroactive-medical-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explore electroactive medical bioplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The U.S. Agriculture Department is funding a five-year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/research\/projects\/projects.htm?accn_no=420021\" >project<\/a> to develop electroactive polymers from natural, renewable feedstocks such as cornstarch.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The implications are significant because commercially available electroactive polymers made from fossil fuels, such as polyanaline, cost much more than corn starch (about 40 cents per pound in 50-pound bags). Polyaniline emeraldine-based polymers can cost thousands of dollars per pound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticstoday.com\/articles\/researchers-explore-electroactive-active-medical-bioplastics1206201101\" >www.plasticstoday.com\/articles\/researchers-explore-electroactive-active-medical-bioplastics1206201101<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Tags: Plant Polymer Research, Unit of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, reactive extrusion<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The U.S. Agriculture Department is funding a five-year project to develop electroactive polymers from natural, renewable feedstocks such as cornstarch.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The implications are significant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[8400],"class_list":["post-15527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15527"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}