Starch is a polysaccharide widely present in nature and characterized by a wide range of
applications. This often implies the necessity for various novel properties with respect to …

A shift to a bioeconomy development model has been evolving, conducting the scientific
community to investigate new ways of producing chemicals, materials and fuels from …

Biomass has emerged as a potential alternative feedstock to dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
Starting in the 1990s, extensive research has been directed towards the synthesis of useful …

Recently, the utilization of starch to replace synthetic polymers for the manufacture of green
materials has gained extensive interest, due to its renewability, biodegradability, abundance …

Keratins are a family of fibrous proteins anticipated to possess wide-ranging biomedical
applications due to their abundance, physicochemical properties and intrinsic biological …

Wool keratin, a natural biopolymer, is potentially an important renewable source of raw
materials for the polyamide plastics industry. Large quantities of non-spinnable and short …

Ionic liquids (ILs) are liquid salts at ambient or lower temperatures and consist of ions and
short-lived ion pairs. They are potential alternatives to toxic, hazardous, highly flammable …

In this work changes in potato starch during processing (dissolution and plasticization via
thermocompression) in the presence of three types of media: deep eutectic solvents (DES) …

Potato starch and high-amylose starch were treated with imidazole-based deep eutectic
solvents (DESs) as dissolution and plasticization media. Beside imidazole (IM) for two …

Background Biomass pretreatment using certain ionic liquids (ILs) is very efficient, generally
producing a substrate that is amenable to saccharification with fermentable sugar yields …