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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 33, Issue 22, Pages 8344-8353Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma0008701
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Nanocomposite materials were obtained using glycerol plasticized starch as the matrix and a colloidal suspension of cellulose whiskers as the reinforcing phase. The cellulose whiskers, prepared from tunicin, consisted of slender parallelepiped rods with a high aspect ratio. After mixing the raw materials and gelatinization of starch, the resulting suspension was cast and evaporated under vacuum. The composites were conditioned at various moisture contents in order to evaluate the effect of this parameter on the composite structure. The resulting films were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, water absorption experiments, and wide-angle X-ray scattering. An accumulation of plasticizer in the cellulose/amylopectin interfacial zones was evidenced. The specific behavior of amylopectin chains located near the interface in the presence of cellulose probably led to a transcrystallization phenomenon of amylopectin on cellulose whiskers surface.
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