Miwa Suzuki, Shun’ichi Ishii, Minori Ota, Kohei Gonda, Hiroyuki Kashima, Takahiro Arai, Yuya Tachibana, Hiroyuki Takeno, and Ken-ichi Kasuya. Enhancing marine biodegradability of poly (butylene succinate) by blending with 16-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid and poly(ε-caprolactone). Polymer Degradation and Stability, 228, 110912(2024).

Natsumi Hyodo, Hongyi Gan, Manikandan Ilangovan, Satoshi Kimura, Ken‐ichi Kasuya, Noriyuki Isobe & Tadahisa Iwata: Coastal and deep-sea biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoate microbeads, Scientific Reports, 14, Article number:10302 (2024).

Taku Omura, Noriyuki Isobe, Takamasa Miura, Shun’ichi Ishii, Mihoko Mori, Yoshiyuki Ishitani, Satoshi Kimura, Kohei Hidaka, Katsuya Komiyama, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Hidetaka Nomaki, Ryota Nakajima, Masashi Tsuchiya, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Hiroyuki Mori, Atsuyoshi Nakayama, Masao Kunioka, Kei Kamino & Sadahisa Iwata, Microbial decomposition of biodegradable plastics on the deep-sea floor, Nature Communications, 15, Article number: 568 (2024).

Toyokazu Tsutsua, Yuta Sawanaka, Miwa Suzuki, Kana Inagaki, Kana Arai, Syusuke Okaniwa, Junko Torii, Yuya Tachibana, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Evaluation of the effect of the number of methylene units in poly(ω-hydroxyalkanoate)s on their biodegradability, Polymer Degradation and Stability, 222, 110701 (2024).

Tetsuro Ikuta, Hidetaka Nomaki, Ryota Nakajima, Accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyl in the ovaries of deep-sea chemosynthetic clam Phreagena okutanii, Frontiers in Marine Science 11: 1358774. (2024)

Ramamoorthi M. Sivashankari, Yuki Miyahara, Takeharu Tsuge. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthesis from [U-¹³C₆]D-Glucose by Ralstonia eutropha NCIMB 11599 and recombinant Escherichia coli, Microbiol. Res., 14, 1894-1906, 2023

Kenji Tanaka, Izumi Orita, Toshiaki Fukui, Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) from CO₂ via pH-Stat Jar Cultivation of an Engineered Hydrogen-Oxidizing Bacterium Cupriavidus necator. Bioengineering, 10, 1304 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10111304

Yuya Tachibana, Toyokazu Tsutsuba, Masaru Sakata, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Disubstituted cyclohexane monomers as biodegradable building block: Evaluation of biodegradability of polyesters containing cyclohexane ring, Polymer Degradation and Stability 217, 110516 (2023).

QiuYuan Huang, Satoshi Kimura, Tadahisa Iwata: Thermal Embedding of Humicola insolens Cutinase: A Strategy for Improving Polyester Biodegradation in Seawater; Biomacromolecules 2023, DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00835

Taku Omura, Sakura Tsujimoto, Satoshi Kimura, Akira Maehara, Taizo Kabe and Tadahisa Iwata:   Marine biodegradation of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4hydroxybutyrate] elastic fibers in seawater: Dependence of decomposition rate on highly ordered structure; Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 2023, 1303830 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1303830,