Mechanism and rate of degradation of polyhydroxyoctanoate films in aqueous media: A long-termin vitro study
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The present study investigated the in vitro mechanism and degradation rate of polyhydroxyoctanoate (PHO). Solution-cast PHO films were incubated in either water or isoosmotic phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) for periods ranging from 1 to 24 months. Physical characterization included weight loss, water absorption, pH change, tensile strength, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies. Analytical investigations including electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), wide-angle X-ray diffraction, and size exclusion chromatography were also performed to assess chemical and morphological changes to the structure of the PHO. The results show that the PHO-cast films incubated in either water or isoosmotic PBS underwent a simple hydrolytic degradation process characterized by water absorption, gradual molecular weight decrease, and negligible mass loss after 24 months of incubation. DSC results suggest that degradation occurred in the amorphous zone, followed by an attack in the crystalline domain. An increase in the vibration stretching of OH after 24 months of incubation, as revealed by FTIR, may indicate that the degradation process began internally, moving outwardly toward the surface of the PHO films. This process was more rapid in the films incubated in PBS than in those incubated in water. However, no significant changes in the morphology of the films were detected by SEM. This study demonstrated that the in vitro degradation of PHO in water or in PBS is a very slow hydrolytic process, exceeding 2 years. Our findings also suggest that the internal degradation mechanism is faster in PBS because of the ionic strength of the medium and that this internal process surface moves gradually toward the surface.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it