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Abstract
Bioplastics stand to enable more sustainable plastic life cycles and act as a key driver in curbing plastic pollution. Yet, outperforming petrochemical plastics while avoiding unintended environmental costs remains a challenge. Now, emerging technical tools, including metabolic engineering, genome editing, artificial intelligence, and automation, accelerate bioplastics’ evolution to promote a circular plastics economy.
期刊介绍:
Matter, a monthly journal affiliated with Cell, spans the broad field of materials science from nano to macro levels,covering fundamentals to applications. Embracing groundbreaking technologies,it includes full-length research articles,reviews, perspectives,previews, opinions, personnel stories, and general editorial content.
Matter aims to be the primary resource for researchers in academia and industry, inspiring the next generation of materials scientists.