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Preliminary Studies on Converting Agricultural Waste into Biodegradable Plastics—Part IV: Polysaccharide Containing Natural Materials

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Corn distillers’ dry grain, corncob powder, hardwood powder, and sugar beet pulp were separately anionized by oxidation with sodium hypochlorite in aqueous solution. Solid reaction products instantly precipitated upon admixing each of the above-oxidized materials with soy protein isolate. Infrared spectra and differential scanning calorimetry supported the hypothesis that soy protein isolate complexed with all of the above-oxidized polysaccharides. Reaction products with either oxidized corn distillers’ dry grain or oxidized sugar beet pulp provided hard, brittle pellets with tensile strengths as high as 9.5 MPa, suggesting that these materials could be viable as biodegradable plastics.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saginaw Valley State University, 7400 Bay Road, 48710, University Center, MI, USA

    Christopher H. Schilling, Bruce Hart, Jagdeep Garcha & Paul T. Boettcher

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Cracow, Poland

    Piotr Tomasik

  3. Department of Chemistry, Saginaw Valley State University, 48710, University Center, MI, USA

    David S. Karpovich

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Schilling, C.H., Tomasik, P., Karpovich, D.S. et al. Preliminary Studies on Converting Agricultural Waste into Biodegradable Plastics—Part IV: Polysaccharide Containing Natural Materials. J Polym Environ 13, 203–211 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-005-4755-5

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