Petroleum-based plastics have come under a lot of scrutiny in the past decade owing to the
properties that made them ubiquitous items; their durability and expendability. The …

Protected cultivation in modern agriculture relies extensively on plastic-originated mulch
films, nets, packaging, piping, silage, and various applications. Polyolefins synthesized from …

In this study, a mixture of thermoplastic polybutylene succinate (PBS), tapioca starch,
glycerol and empty fruit bunch fiber was prepared by a melt compounding method using an …

Starch has received much attention as a promising natural material both in biomedical fields
and waste water treatment due to its unique biological and adsorptive properties. Recently …

Environmental pollution by synthetic polymers is a global problem and investigating
substitutes for synthetic polymers is a major research area. Starch can be used in …

Starch/cellulose nanofibers composites with proper porosity pore size, mechanical strength,
and biodegradability for cartilage tissue engineering have been reported in this study. The …

The health and environmental concerns of the usage of non-biodegradable plastics have
driven efforts to explore replacing them with renewable polymers. Although starch is a vital …

Nowadays, rapidly increasing production, use and disposable of plastic products has
become one of the utmost environmental issues. Our current circumstances in which the …

In the present study, cellulose nanofibers composite films were manufactured based on
thermoplastic starch. Nanofibers were extracted from rice straw employing a developed …

Oxidation of starch is one of the most commonly used approaches to improve its properties
in the thermoplastic (TP) reactions. Iron oxide nanoparticle (IONP)(8.2±1.5 nm) was used as …