Starch-based polymeric materials and nanocomposites chemistry, processing, and applications
"Preface Biodegradable polymers from renewable resources have attracted much attention in recent years. Starch has been considered as one of the most promising candidates among biopolymers mainly because of its attractive combination of availability and price. Starch is unique in its applicatio...
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
2012.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781439851173 |
| DOI | 10.1201/b11848 |
| Physical Description | xiv, 402 p. : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction : starch as biopolymer and nanocomposite / Jasim Ahmed ... [et al.]
- ch. 2. Starch : chemistry, microstructure, processing, and enzymatic degradation / Syed H. Imam ... [et al.]
- ch. 3. Starch as gelling agent / Thava Vasanthan ... [et al.]
- ch. 4. Plasticized starch / Xiaofei Ma, Peter R. Chang, and Jiugao Yu
- ch. 5. Rheological and thermal properties of starch and starch-based biopolymers / M.A. Rao, Jirarat Tattiyakul, and Hung-Ju Liao
- ch. 6. Modification of biodegradable polymers through reactive extrusion-I / I. Moura and A.V. Machado
- ch. 7. Modification of biodegradable polymers through reactive extrusion-II / Sathya B. Kalambur
- ch. 8. Starch-derived cyclodextrins and their future in the food biopolymer industry / C. Gonzalez-Barreiro ... [et al.]
- ch. 9. Functional and physicochemical properties of cyclodextrins / Jun Zhao and Shan-Jing Yao
- ch. 10. Introduction of starch into plastic films : advent of starch in plastics / R.E. Harry-O'kuru and Sherald H. Gordon
- ch. 11. Starch-based edible films and coatings / Mahesh Gupta, Charles Brennan, and Brijesh K. Tiwari
- ch. 12. Starch as a feedstock for bioproducts and packaging / Gregory M. Glenn ... [et al.]
- ch. 13. Chemometric analysis of multicomponent biodegradable plastics by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry : the R-matrix method / Sherald H. Gordon
- ch. 14. Starch polymer as advanced material for industrial and consumer products / Randal L. Shogren
- ch. 15. Recent progress in starch-based biodegradable hybrids and nanomaterials / Peter R. Chang ... [et al.]
- ch. 16. Mechanical, rheological, and thermal properties of starch-based nanocomposites / Jasim Ahmed
- ch. 17. Starch nanocomposites and nanoparticles : biomedical applications / Anitha R. Dudhani
- ch. 18. Application of life cycle assessment for starch and starch blends / Ali Abas Wani and Preeti Singh.