Recent progress in chemical modification of starch and its applications

Qing Chen; Haojie Yu; Li Wang; Zain ul Abdin; Yongsheng Chen; Junhua Wang; Weidong Zhou; Xianpeng Yang; Rizwan Ullah Khan; Hongtao Zhang; Xiao Chen

doi:10.1039/C5RA10849G

Recent progress in chemical modification of starch and its applications

Qing Chen,^a Haojie Yu,*^a Li Wang,*^a Zain ul Abdin,^a Yongsheng Chen,^a Junhua Wang,^a Weidong Zhou,^a Xianpeng Yang,^a Rizwan Ullah Khan,^a Hongtao Zhang^b and Xiao Chen^b

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^a State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
E-mail: hjyu@zju.edu.cn, opl_wl@dial.zju.edu.cn
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^b China Tobacco Henan Industrial Co. Ltd, Zhengzhou, China

Abstract

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, the modification of starch is rapidly developed along with its growing applications. This review focuses on the ways of chemical modification of starch including cross-linking, grafting, esterification, etherification, dual modification and so on, and presents the applications of the modified starch in fields like drug delivery, tissue engineering and heavy metal and dye removal.

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