Shun'ichi Ishii, Sangho Koh, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Seiichi Taguchi, Unveiling deep-sea biodegradation of microbially produced lactate-based polyester (LAHB) via plastisphere metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, Polym Degrad Stab, 2025, 111527, DOI 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2025.111527, Open access Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Sangho Koh, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Seiichi Taguchi, Seawater biodegradation of a microbial lactate-based polyester (LAHB) as an advanced version of non-degradable polylactide, Biosi Biotech Biochem, 2025, zbaf097, DOI 10.1093/bbb/zbaf097, Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Takanari Koike, Yosuke Muranaka, Yuta Hikima, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-Ichi Kasuya, Taisuke Maki, Evaluation of the Relationship between Crystal Orientation and Enzymatic Degradation Rate of Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyhexanoate] Banded Spherulites via FT-IR Imaging, Macromolecules, 2025, DOI 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c01352, Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Miwa Suzuki, Takuya Hayashi, Kohei Takahashi, Kyoko Nozaki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Exploring biodegradation limits of n-alkanes as polyethylene models using multi-omics approaches, Sci Total Environ, 977, 2025, 179365, DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179365, Open access Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Yuya Tachibana, Yuta Sawanaka, Toyokazu Tsutsuba, Miwa Suzuki, Manami Hiraishi, Momoka Kudo, Junko Torii, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Can poly(butylene succinate) degrade in seawater?, Chemsphere, 374, 2025, 144203, DOI 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144203, Open access

Miwa Suzuki, Shun’ichi Ishii, Kohei Gonda, Hiroyuki Kashima, Shino Suzuki, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Takahiro Arai, Yuya Tachibana, Tadahisa Iwata, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Oceanic biodegradation mechanisms of chemosynthetic biodegradable polyesters: focusing on poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate), ACS SRM, 2, 2025, 343-353, DOI 10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00440, Open access Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Phouvilay Soulenthone, Miwa Suzuki, Yuya Tachibana, Maya Furukori, Taijiro Saito, Rina Kawamura, Paul Olusegun Bankole, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Halopseudomonas sp. MFKK-1: A marine-derived bacterium capable of degrading poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate), poly(ε-caprolactone), and poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) in marine ecosystems, Polym Degrad Stab, 232, 2024, 11161, DOI 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2024.111161, Open access Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Sakura Tsujimoto, Taku Omura, Katsuya Komiyama, Taizo Kabe, Akira Maehara, Atsuhiko Murayama, Hitoshi Hirata, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Daisuke Takahashi, Tadahisa Iwata, Evaluation of the Highly Ordered Structure, Ligature, and Enzymatic Degradation of Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate] Elastic Porous Fibers, Biomacromolecule, 25, 2024, 7861-7868, DOI 10.1021/acs.biomac.4c01144

Takanari Koike, Yosuke Muranaka, Yuta Hikima, Miwa Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Taisuke Maki, Effect of the crystal orientation on the enzymatic degradation rate of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) fibers, Polym Degrad Stab, 229, 2024,110977, DOI 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2024.110977

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

Polym Degrad Stab, 228, 2024, 110912, DOI 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2024.110912, Open access Audio file_日本語,  Audio file_in_English

Haobo Yuan, Kohei Takahashi, Shinya Hayashi, Miwa Suzuki, Nobuhiro Fujikake, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Jian Zhou, Shintaro Nakagawa, Naoko Yoshie, Chifeng Li, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Kyoko Nozaki, Synthesis of Novel Polymers with Biodegradability by Main-Chain Editing of Chiral Polyketones, J Am Chem Soc, 146, 2024, 13658-13665, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c04389

Natsumi Hyodo, Hongyi Gan, Manikandan Ilangovan, Satoshi Kimura, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Noriyuki Isobe, Tadahisa Iwata, Coastal and deep-sea biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoate microbeads, Sci Rep, 14, 2024, 10302, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60949-z

Toyokazu Tsutsuba, 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, Polym Degrad Stab, 222, 2024, 110701, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2024.110701

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. Tadahisa Iwata, Microbial decomposition of biodegradable plastics on the deep-sea floor, Nat Commun, 15, 2024, 568, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44368-8, Open access

Naotaka Kimura, Taizo Kabe, Satoshi Kimura, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Tadahisa Iwata, Enzymatic degradation mechanism of the lamellar stacking structures of poly([R]-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-[R]-3-hydroxyvalerate) fibers, Polym Degrad Stab, 219, 2024, 110607, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110607

Yuya Tachibana, Toyokazu Tsutsuba, Masaru Sakata, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Disubstituted cyclohexane monomers as biodegradable building block: Evaluation of biodegradability of polyesters containing cyclohexane ring, Polym Degrad Stab, 217, 2023, 110516, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110516

Miwa Suzuki, Yuya Tachibana, Phouvilay Soulenthone, Tomoya Suzuki, Hiroyuki Takeno, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Control of marine biodegradation of an aliphatic polyester using endospores, Polym Degrad Stab, 214, 2023, 110466, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110466　Audio file_日本語, Audio file_in_English

Kota Arai, Toyokazu Tsutsuba, Tatsuya Wasano, Yuka Hirose, Yuya Tachibana, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Synthesis of Biobased Polyamides Containing a Bifuran Moiety and Comparison of Their Properties with Those of Polyamides Based on a Single Furan Ring, ACS Appl Polym Mater, 5, 2023, 3866, doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c00525

Jobu Tateiwa, Yu-I Hsu, Hiroshi Uyama, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Tadahisa Iwata, Surface oxidation of polyhydroxyalkanoate films with different molecular structure via photo-activated chlorine dioxide radical and comparison of the influence on the properties, Polym Degrad Stab, 214, 2023, 110319, doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110391

Shunsuke Beppu, Yuya Tachibana, Ken-ichi Kasuya, Recyclable Polycarbosilane from a Biomass-Derived Bifuran-Based Monomer, ACS Macro Letters, 12, 2023, 536–542, doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00095