عنوان مجله
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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چکیده
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Among many biodegradable and biocompatible biopolymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), generated by microorganisms,
have highly attracted attention in various fields due to their unique physicochemical properties.
So far, various types of progresses have been made in environmental and engineering fields by employing
PHAs. Recently, employing PHAs for nanoarchitecture has become a newly emerging trend among researchers.
The intrinsic nature of PHAs has dragged them towards fabrication of nanoparticles and nanocomposites. PHAs
integration with nanoparticles has been vastly noted and applied in various areas such as drug delivery, antibacterial
agents and bioengineering. Here, a brief review is given to how PHAs act and are produced by microorganisms,
demonstrating their properties and finally, their most recent applications are discussed in nanoarchitecture
and theways they are manipulated in the fabrication of nanomaterials. This reviewcan shed light on the exhaustive
understanding of PHA capability in nanoarchitectural basics toward the development of advanced
nanomaterials in many fields such as medicine, catalysis, sensor, and adsorbents.
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