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Title: | Influence of technological process on biodegradation of PVA/waxy starch blends in an aerobic and anaerobic evironment | ||||||||||
Author: | Julinová, Markéta; Dvořáčková, Marie; Kupec, Jan; Hubáčková, Jitka; Kopčilová, Martina; Hoffmann, Jaromír; Alexy, Pavol; Nahálková, Anna; Vašková, Ida | ||||||||||
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) | ||||||||||
Source document: | Journal of Polymers and the Environment. 2008, vol. 16, issue 4, p. 241-249 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1566-2543 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-008-0109-4 | ||||||||||
Abstract: | Improving biodegradability of PVA/starch blends is a reality already documented by a number of works. Admittedly, mechanical properties of products (for example, tensile strength) are somewhat worse, but suitable composition optimizing or chemical modifying of starch may eliminate the problem to a large degree. This work is an attempt to find another potential effect influencing biodegradability, that of technological procedure for producing films from these blends on an extruder. The procedure with a so-called pre-extrusion step (two-stage) and dry-blend (single-stage) produced blends of slightest differences in achieved biodegradability (virtually within limits of experimental error) in aerobic (76 vs. 79%) as well as anaerobic higher.breakdown (48 vs. 52%). Conversely, morphological analysis exhibited superior homogeneity of films prepared by the two-stage process | ||||||||||
Full text: | http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/q6m13318j8wr1j51/ | ||||||||||
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