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Figure 12.8 (a) DTA–DTG–DG analysis of degraded LDPE.
(b) DTA–DTG–DG analysis of undegraded LDPE.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by a DBT grant to RG. One author (SK) also acknowledges
ICAR for Junior Research Fellowship during the course of this study. We also thank
CDRI (SAIF), Lucknow and NCCS, Pune, for FTIR and 16S rRNA sequencing,
respectively.
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