Journal
MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 1206-1216Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.200700136
Keywords
nanocomposites; nanocrystals; nanoparticles; polysaccharides; starch; thermoplastic starch
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Nanocomposites films have been processed from a filler and a matrix having the same nature, i.e. waxy maize starch. The filler consists of nanoplatelet-like starch particles obtained as an aqueous suspension by acid hydrolysis of starch granules and the matrix was prepared by plasticization and disruption of starch granules with water and sorbitol. Nanocomposite films were obtained by casting and evaporating the mixture of the aqueous suspension of starch nanocrystals with the gelatinized starch. The resulting films were conditioned before testing and the effect of accelerated ageing in moist atmosphere was investigated. The thermal properties of the nanocomposite films were determined from DSC measurements and the mechanical characterization was performed in both the linear and nonlinear range.
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