Research Article

Antimicrobial Bioplastics: Synthesis and Characterization of Thermally Stable Starch and Lysine-Based Polymeric Ligand and Its Transition Metals Incorporated Coordination Polymer

Table 6

Biodegradability of starch, SLys, and Sly-Mn(II).

Materials
Biodegradability rate constant (k)Total weight loss (gm)Medium

Starch
0.001297
0.01081
Biotic
SLys
0.001461
0.01217
Biotic
SLys-Mn(II)0.0007910.006598Biotic