In recent years, there has been a growing attempt to manipulate various properties of
biodegradable materials to use them as alternatives to their synthetic plastic counterparts …

Rice starch has been used in various agri-food products due to its hypoallergenic properties.
However, rice starch has poor solubility, lower resistant starch content with reduced …

Natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) of choline chloride/oxalic acid (OA) and choline
chloride/ascorbic acid (AA) were evaluated as innovative candidates for cassava starch …

A progressively increasing concern about the environmental impacts of the whole polymer
industry has boosted the design of less aggressive technologies that allow for the maximum …

Thermoplastic starch is a good candidate for preparing biobased plastics. However, certain
deficiencies in the ingredient, such as its poor mechanical strength and lack of antibacterial …

Utilizing starch, an abundant polysaccharide, as the renewable filler to blend with poly
(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate)(PBAT) is a feasible tactic to construct cost-effective and …

Renewable and biodegradable resources have gained increasing attention as promising
alternatives to synthetic plastics. Among the diverse raw materials employed in bioplastics …

The goal of the work was to prepare thermoplastic starch (TPS), for the first time plasticized
with ternary deep eutectic solvents (DESs) based on urea/resorcinol/choline chloride …

Thermoplastic starch (TPS) has emerged as an essential alternative to produce
environmentally friendly packaging; however, retrogradation is a disadvantage that affects …

The paper presents the production of thermoplastic starch (TPS) mixtures using potato
starch and two types of plasticizers: glycerol and sorbitol. The effects of plasticizers, citric …