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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 1620-1628Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2012.07.041
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Starch resins; Green crosslinking; Esterification; Moisture sensitivity; Mechanical properties
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- Wallace Foundation
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Starch is a highly hydrophilic biomaterial with weak mechanical properties rendering it useless for commercial applications. A fully 'green' water based process is presented to crosslink corn (cereal) and potato (tuber) starch to enhance mechanical properties as well as lower hydrophilicity. In addition, malonic acid, a green, plant based water soluble and relatively inexpensive polycarboxylic acid, was used as the crosslinker. The reactivity of potato starch toward esterification and crosslinking was found to be higher than that of corn starch owing to the inherent differences in the granule morphology and internal structure of the two starches. It was observed that potato starch granules had a higher degree of substitution (DS) of 0.19 than corn starch granules (DS = 0.1) under similar reaction conditions. Chemical, thermal and mechanical test results confirmed the crosslinking as well as reduced moisture sensitivity. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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