Advances in chemical modifications of starches and their applications

F Haq, H Yu, LI Wang, L Teng, M Haroon, RU Khan… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
Starch is a homopolysaccharide made up of glucose units which are linked together via a
glycosidic linkage. This biopolymer is well known for its low cost, biodegradability …

Development of starch-based materials using current modification techniques and their applications: A review

SM Amaraweera, C Gunathilake, OHP Gunawardene… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Starch is one of the most common biodegradable polymers found in nature, and it is widely
utilized in the food and beverage, bioplastic industry, paper industry, textile, and biofuel …

Preparation, characterization, physicochemical property and potential application of porous starch: A review

J Chen, Y Wang, J Liu, X Xu - International Journal of Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, porous starch has attracted increasing attention due to its valuable functions
and potential applications. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the recent …

Cationic tall oil lignin-starch copolymer as a flocculant for clay suspensions

L Zhao, J Diaz-Baca, A Salaghi, J Gao, Y Wang… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel cationic tall oil lignin (TOL)-starch copolymer was successfully
prepared by the polymerization reaction of TOL, starch and a cationic monomer of (3 …

Synthesis of vildagliptin loaded acrylamide-g-psyllium/alginate-based core-shell nanoparticles for diabetes treatment

D Kumar, A Gautam, S Rohatgi, PP Kundu - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus has become a major public health concern all over the world. Vildagliptin
is one of the antidiabeticdrug that can overcome the existing problem of this prevalent …

A novel treatment for amelioration of sludge dewaterability using green starch-grafted flocculant and realized mechanism

L Li, C Peng, Z Zhan, F Ma, J Zhang - Separation and Purification …, 2022 - Elsevier
To clarify the effect of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), protein and hydrophilic
substances on the dewatering efficiency during starch-grafted flocculant (SBF) conditioning …

Evaluation of the structural factors for the flocculation performance of a co-graft cationic starch-based flocculant

P Hu, Z Xi, Y Li, A Li, H Yang - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Three series of co-graft cationic starch (St)-based flocculants with distinct structural
characteristics, namely, charge density (CD), graft-chain length (L), and graft-chain …

Stability and repeatability improvement of horseradish peroxidase by immobilization on amino-functionalized bacterial cellulose

B Yu, H Cheng, W Zhuang, CJ Zhu, J Wu, H Niu… - Process …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a biodegradable material with many excellent properties for
enzyme immobilization. However, hydroxyl groups of low reactivity in glucose units cannot …

Generation of sulfonated lignin-starch polymer and its use as a flocculant

JA Diaz-Baca, A Salaghi, P Fatehi - Biomacromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper reports the polymerization of tall oil lignin (TOL), starch, and 2-methyl-2-propene-
1-sulfonic acid sodium salt (MPSA), a sulfonate-containing monomer, in a three-component …

Synthesis of acryloylated starch-g-poly acrylates crosslinked polymer functionalized by emulsified vinyltrimethylsilane derivative as a novel EOR agent for severe …

AN El-Hoshoudy - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2019 - Elsevier
Starch is a natural polysaccharide with reasonable biodegradable properties, which grafted
with vinyl monomers through different initiators to be applied in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) …