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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 573-581Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2007.12.023
Keywords
film forming capacity; chemically modified corn starch films; plasticizer; water vapor permeability; mechanical properties
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Native starch can be chemically modified to improve its functionality and to expand its uses. Modified starches were characterized and the rheological behavior of filmogenic suspensions was analyzed. The film forming capacity of different chemical modified corn starches was evaluated. Acetylated starch was selected by the characteristics of the resulted films; its optimum concentration was 5% w/w since their films exhibited the lowest water vapor permeability (WVP, 1.26 x 10(-10) g/m s Pa). The effect of glycerol as plasticizer on film properties depend on its concentration, being 1.5% w/w those that allows to obtain the lowest WVP value (1.64 x 10(-11) g/m s Pa), low film solubility in water and a more compact structure than those of unplasticized films. Mechanical behavior of plasticized acetylated starch films depends on glycerol concentration, being rigid and brittle the unplasticized ones, ductile those containing 1.5% w/w of glycerol and very flexible those with a higher plasticizer content. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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