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STARCH-STARKE
Volume 60, Issue 12, Pages 676-684Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/star.200800017
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N,N-Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)formamide; New plasticizer; Thermoplastic starch
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N,N-Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)formamide (BHF) was synthesized efficiently and used as a new plasticizer for corn starch to prepare thermoplastic starch (TPS). The hydrogen bond interaction between BHF and starch was proven by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. As detected by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), starch granules were completely disrupted and a continuous phase was obtained. The crystallinity of corn starch and BHF-plasticized TPS (BTPS) was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The thermal behavior of glycerol-plasticized TPS (GTPS) and BTPS was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The water resistance of BTPS was better than that of GTPS. Generally, at low relative humidity (RH), the tensile strength of BTPS was higher than that of GTPS. At high RH, the elongation at break of BTPS was higher than that of GTPS.
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