Industrial Chemistry and Aqua Technology

Biopolymers and Bio plastics

Polymeric biomolecules or biopolymers are polymers fabricated by living organisms. Polynucleotides, Nucleotides and Polypeptides are the three main classes of polymers those are called long polymers. It also have short polymer of amino acids and polysaccharides which are frequently linear bonded polymeric carbohydrate structure for example examples: rubber, melanin and lignin. The difference between biopolymer and synthetic polymer can be found in their structure .compare to biopolymer synthetic polymer has much simplest structure. This fact shows to a molecular mass distribution that is missing in biopolymers. All biopolymers are alike that they all contain the similar sequences and numbers of monomers and thus all have the same mass.