ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on biopolyesters as potential candidates with novel and multifunctional characteristics to engineer new types of biocomposites. It aims to critically overview the literature to establish the stability and infective capacity of naturally occurring materials. The chapter presents judicious design, novel characteristics of the developed material that can be modified to achieve an optimal infective capability. Bio-based natural materials are moving into the mainstream applications, changing the dynamics of 21st century materials and their utilization in various research strategies. polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) belong to a family of biopolyesters produced by microbes under limited nutritional conditions or excess carbon source. A composite consists of two or more distinct materials/polymers to obtain tailor-made characteristics or to improve or impart ideal properties. The use of biopolymers such as PHA-based biocomposites for biomedical and biotechnological applications has many intrinsic advantages such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, renewability, sustainability, and non-toxicity.
