Patent ID: 9605287
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A23K,A23L,A23V,A61K,A61Q,B01D,C08H,C08J,C08L,C12N,C12P,C13K,D21C,Y02A,Y02E,Y02P

Claim:
1. A method comprising: (a) irradiating a recalcitrant biomass with an electron beam in a recalcitrance-reducing dose, thereby providing a treated biomass material having a reduced recalcitrance, wherein the recalcitrant biomass comprises lignocellulosic, cellulosic or starchy biomass; (b) converting the treated biomass material having a reduced recalcitrance into a plastic, wherein the plastic is a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) obtained by culturing said treated biomass with (c) obtaining said plastic.