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MACROMOLECULAR SYMPOSIA
Volume 221, Issue -, Pages 95-104Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/masy.200550310
Keywords
acid hydrolysis; filler; nanocomposites; starch nanocrystals; waxy maize starch
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Aqueous suspensions of nanocrystals can be obtained by acid hydrolysis of native waxy maize starch granules. The disruption of waxy maize starch granules by 2.2N HCl hydrolysis has been followed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and laser granulometry. The mechanical properties of composite materials made of poly(styrene-co-butyl acrylate) filled with starch nanocrystals were characterized by dynamic mechanical analysis. These nanocrystals appeared to be an interesting reinforcing phase in a thermoplastic matrix.
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