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1925
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Maurice Lemoigne a French microbiologist discovers that PHB can be produced by feeding bacteria on a nutrient rich diet, and then removing the available glucose to which they respond by making PHB.
1930 - 1940
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Polylactic acid is discovered by Wallace Caruthers
1957
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The biopolymer PHB is rediscovered in 1957 in the UK and the U.S.A, 32 years after being first discovered.
1960 - 1970
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Chemists came to understand that PHB could be produced from bacteria when exposed to conditions were limited energy sources were available for the bacteria.
1970 - 1980
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A research program is conducted by the ICI discovering that the crystallinity, molecular weight, melting points and tensile strength of PHB are very similar to polypropylene.
1988
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As a result of genetic technology the genes responsible for PHB synthesis in Alcaligenes Eutrophus bacteria are cloned and transferred into E.coli bacteria which reproduced quickly and had an easily manipulated physiology.
1991
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2 tons of PHB is produced in a trial as a result of a growing need for environmentally friendly plastics.