title: Kinetics and mechanism of the synthesis of a novel protein-based plastic using subcritical water.
abstract: We investigated the intermolecular mechanism and kinetics of the synthesis of a novel biodegradable protein-based plastic from bovine serum albumin under subcritical water conditions using batch reactors. The reaction mechanism could be viewed as a chain reaction stabilized by the formation of intermolecular disulfide bonds. The kinetic analysis was based on non-steady-state kinetics using a theoretical model developed in one of our previous works. The activation energy and pre-exponential factor were found to be 7.2 kJ/mol and 0.9 s-1, respectively. These low values signify that the reaction is relatively temperature-insensitive with some diffusion limitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. drengwael2003@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Wael
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Abdelmoez
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000399:Air Pressure; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019149:Bioreactors; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010969:Plastics / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D011208:Powders; D011506:Proteins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine / Q000737:chemistry; D012996:Solutions; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013696:Temperature; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D011208:Powders; D011506:Proteins; D012996:Solutions; D014867:Water; D012710:Serum Albumin, Bovine