Table 1.
Chemical composition of the oxo-biodegradable plastic before and after 120 days of sunlight exposure.
Figure 1.
Mechanical properties of the oxo-biodegradable plastic before and after 30, 60, 90 or 120 days of sunlight exposure.
*Value was multiplied by 10, ** Value was divided by 10.
Figure 2.
Spectrum of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of oxo-biodegradable plastic before (Ox0duv) and after 120 days of sunlight exposure (0x120duv).
Figure 3.
Scanning electron microscopy of oxo-biodegradable plastic before (Ox0duv) and after 30 (Ox30duv), 60 (Ox60duv), 90 (Ox90duv) and 120 days (Ox120duv) of sunlight exposure.
Figure 4.
Scanning electron microscopy of Pleurotus ostreatus hyphae grown on the surface of oxo-biodegradable plastic.
White arrows and white circles denote the septa and adhesion hyphae, respectively.
Figure 5.
Respiratory activity of Pleurotus ostreatus, following 90 days of growth, before (Ox0duv) and after 30 (Ox30duv), 60 (Ox60duv), 90 (Ox90duv) and 120 days (Ox120duv) of sunlight.
*Exponential equation significance (p<0.05). There were no differences between Ox30duv and Ox60duv or Ox90duv and Ox120duv.
Figure 6.
Dry mass of the substrates, used for 90 days of Pleurotus ostreatus growth, before (Ox0duv) and after 30 (Ox30duv), 60 (Ox60duv), 90 (Ox90duv) or 120 days (Ox120duv) of sunlight.
Table 2.
Mechanical properties of oxo-biodegradable plastic before and after 30, 60 or 90 days of incubation with Pleurotus ostreatus.
Figure 7.
Scanning electron microscopy of oxo-biodegradable plastic before and after 120 days of sunlight and after 30, 60 and 90 days of incubation with Pleurotus ostreatus.
Figure 8.
X-ray diffraction of oxo-biodegradable plastic before exposure to sunlight (A) and after 120 days of sunlight and 90 days of incubation.
The small red points represent titanium.
Table 3.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectra of chemical alterations in oxo-biodegradable plastic after 30, 60 and 90 days of incubation with Pleurotus ostreatus.
Figure 9.
Bands of nifH gene from Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium.
Numbers represent the order of the bands (see table 4). M = marker.
Table 4.
Comparison of the nifH gene sequence from Pleurotus ostreatus and sequences of similar genes deposited in GenBank.