Thermal Processing of Starch-Based Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 503
Special Issue Editor
Interests: novel synthesis of functional monomers; functional polymer synthesis and characterization; functionalization of polymer surface; thermal properties of polymers; application of polymeric microspheres in separation processes; polymeric drug delivery systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Starch is an environmentally friendly, carbohydrate, macromolecular compound which finds applications in many industries, such as a the food, pharmaceutical, medical, and paper industries. Due to the availability of starch, its low cost, and the presence of hydroxyl groups in its structure, it can be chemically or physically modified. Thus, novel, more environmentally friendly, inexpensive, and biodegradable starch-based polymers with improved or new properties and with potential applications as fillers, stabilizers, impact resistant materials, plastics, modifiers, matrices, excipients, etc. can be prepared.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the thermal processing of starch-based polymers obtained during chemical, physical, or enzymatic modifications. In particular, papers focusing on the influence of temperature on the multiple physical and chemical reactions of starch-based polymers such as water diffusion, gelatinization, decomposition, melting, crystallization, etc. are welcome. Papers describing techniques used to process starch-based polymers and the influence of starch-based polymer structures on other properties (mechanical, chemical, etc.) after thermal processing are also invited.
Both original contributions and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Marta Worzakowska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- starch-based polymers
- starch modification
- TG/DTG/FTIR/QMS
- DSC
- DMA
- NMR
- XRD
- properties
