Christina Gkountela

A polyesterase from the Antarctic bacterium Moraxella sp. degrades highly crystalline synthetic polymers

Efstratios Nikolaivits, George Taxeidis, Christina Gkountela et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 2022 · 54 citations · Full text

Synthetic Macromolecule, Engineering, Degradable Plastic +10

Discovery of a polyesterase from Deinococcus maricopensis and comparison to the benchmark LCCICCG suggests high potential for semi-crystalline post-consumer PET degradation

Konstantinos Makryniotis, Efstratios Nikolaivits, Christina Gkountela et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 2023 · 37 citations

Biosynthesis, Engineering, Biochemistry +10

Enzymatic Polymerization as a Green Approach to Synthesizing Bio-Based Polyesters

Christina Gkountela, Stamatina Vouyiouka · Macromol—A Journal of Macromolecular Research · 2022 · 33 citations · Full text

Engineering, Biopolymer Production, Bioplastic +20

Triggering and identifying the polyurethane and polyethylene-degrading machinery of filamentous fungi secretomes

George Taxeidis, Efstratios Nikolaivits, Christina Gkountela et al. · Environmental Pollution · 2023 · 32 citations · Full text

Engineering, Polymer Science, Fungal Biology +5

Enzymatic prepolymerization combined with bulk post-polymerization towards the production of bio-based polyesters: The case of poly(butylene succinate)

Christina Gkountela, Maria Rigopoulou, Elli Maria Barampouti et al. · European Polymer Journal · 2020 · 21 citations

Biomanufacturing, Enzymatic Prepolymerization, Engineering +11