乙酰化淀粉的塑化和性能研究

以乙酰化改性淀粉为基体,甘油为增塑剂,利用哈克旋转流变仪密炼制备热塑性乙酰化淀粉.实验结果表明制备热塑性乙酰化淀粉的甘油/乙酰化淀粉配比应大于30/100(W/W),且随甘油含量增加,热塑性乙酰化淀粉的脆性降低.动态机械热分析(DMTA)显示热塑性乙酰化淀粉包含富甘油和富淀粉两相,乙酰化淀粉和甘油为部分互溶.流变学分析显示淀粉分子间作用力非常强,表现为类固态行为.同时本文对材料的热稳定性进行了初步研究.     

改性淀粉材料生物降解性分析体系的建立及应用

测定了热塑性淀粉(TPS)和热塑性双醛淀粉(TPDAS)在堆肥条件下的生物降解能力。根据ISO 14855建立了一套新的测试体系并且验证了这个体系测定高分子材料生物降解性能的可行性。对热塑性淀粉材料生物降解性的测试结果发现化学改性对于淀粉的降解速率和降解速度都有很大的影响。在可控堆肥条件下TPS比TPDAS降解的要快。TPDAS的降解速度和最终的生物降解百分率和双醛淀粉(DAS)的氧化度有密切的关系。文中讨论了存在这种关系的可能原因。有不同降解速率的TPS和TPDAS的降解过程呈现出三个阶段,即迟滞阶段。降解阶段和平稳阶段。     

热塑性淀粉力学性能的提升途径及作用机理

以可再生资源(如淀粉、纤维素和蛋白质等)为基础发展而来的生物可降解塑料受到人们越来越多的关注,是可降解塑料行业发展的重要方向之一。天然淀粉由于来源广、低成本和可生物降解的特点,广泛用于制备淀粉塑料,并用于农业、食品、医药和包装等行业,有望取代石油基衍生聚合物。淀粉大分子具有结晶结构,所含大量羟基可形成较强的分子间和分子内氢键,使其不能热塑加工,而当加入增塑剂后可破坏其结晶结构,从而用于制备热塑性淀粉。目前,热塑性淀粉的力学性能差,是影响其使用性能的首要问题。近年来国内外开展了大量的研究以试图增强其力学性能。本文主要以不同类型的热塑性淀粉为基础,以淀粉自身改性和外加组分改性两种提高其力学性能的途径为主线,以其力学性能的提升方法和作用机理为重点,系统总结了近年来国内外以提高热塑性淀粉材料的力学性能为目的的研究工作,归纳了影响力学性能的相关因素以及提升途径,并对该领域重点研究的内容进行了总结和展望。     

热塑性淀粉中氢键及其对性能的影响

热塑性淀粉中的氢键对热塑性淀粉的性能有决定性的作用．本文利用红外光谱分析甘油或甲酰胺塑化热塑性淀粉中塑化剂和淀粉间的氢键形成情况,发现在淀粉中,与塑化剂形成氢键的主要是C-O-C基团中的氧原子和C-O-H基团中的氢原子;而且过量的塑化剂之间会形成氢键,减弱塑化剂与C-O-C中氧原子的氢键作用．与甘油相比,甲酰胺可以和淀粉形成更稳定的氢键．X-ray衍射研究了氢键对两种热塑性淀粉在不同湿度环境下的回生性能的影响．结果表明甲酰胺可以有效抑制淀粉回生．热动态力学分析(DMTA)研究发现,氢键使甲酰胺塑化热塑性淀粉的玻璃化转变温度更低．氢键使甲酰胺塑化热塑性淀粉强度和杨氏模量低,但伸长率和断裂能大．     

尿素和甲酰胺塑化热塑性淀粉

用甲酰胺和尿素作为塑化剂制备了热塑性淀粉 (TPS) .扫描电镜显示甲酰胺和尿素混合物可以使淀粉塑化 ,形成均一的连续相 ;根据FT IR谱图可以确定 ,与甘油相比 ,甲酰胺可以使热塑性淀粉体系在保存时更稳定 ,各基团的化学环境变化更小 ,这是由于甲酰胺可以和淀粉羟基形成更稳定的氢键 .X ray衍射说明甲酰胺和尿素 (重量比为 10 % 2 0 % )作为混合塑化剂可以有效抑制淀粉的回生 ,同时防止尿素结晶析出 .在RH=33%的湿度环境保存 1周 ,这种热塑性淀粉有良好的拉伸强度、伸长率和断裂能 ,分别达到 4 83MPa ,10 4 6 %和 2 17N·m .水含量对热塑性淀粉的力学性能的影响也被研究 .另外 ,热失重实验和吸水实验说明这种热塑性淀粉的热稳定性和耐水性也要优于常用的甘油塑化热塑性淀粉     

热塑性淀粉耐水性的化学与物理作用机制

石油资源的短缺以及减轻石油基聚合物所产生的环境负担的必要性,推动了生物可降解材料的开发和生产。近几十年来天然聚合物由于无毒性、可生物降解性和生物相容性正在某些领域取代目前的合成聚合物。淀粉由于其可再生性、可生物降解性、低成本和易获得性已经被广泛研究用于制造可生物降解的复合材料,应用于农业、食品、医药和包装行业。但淀粉的多羟基结构赋予其很强的亲水性,这种湿度敏感性限制了它们的机械性能并影响到其应用。本文主要从提高热塑性淀粉耐水性的物理与化学作用机理的角度出发,总结和归纳了近年来国内外以提高热塑性淀粉材料的耐水性能和降低其对环境湿度敏感性为目的的研究工作,介绍了影响耐水性能的相关因素以及改善方法,并指出今后研究工作的发展方向。     

一种新型热塑性淀粉衍生物的制备方法

由于淀粉及其衍生物一般都具有可生物降解,无毒或毒性小,原料易得等方面的优势,以淀粉及其衍生物单独,或作为添加剂与塑料等其它材料复合开发可降解等功能性材料的研究愈来愈受到重视。以淀粉衍生物作为添加剂与非降解性塑料等复合制备可降解材料时,淀粉衍生物的热生是一项非常重要的指标。我们介绍一种平均分子量为50万左右,具有良好的热塑性的新型羟丙羟乙基改性淀粉的制备方法,该产品有望单独,或作为添加剂之一与塑料等混炼,开发出可降解性功能材料。     

新型热塑性淀粉的制备和性能

以二甲基亚砜(DMSO)为增塑剂, 通过熔融共混法制备了一种新型热塑性淀粉(TPS), 研究不同增塑剂含量对材料结构和性能的影响, 并与甘油及甘油/水复合增塑淀粉体系进行了比较. FTIR结果显示, DMSO能够与淀粉产生强烈而稳定的氢键相互作用. WAXD和SEM的研究结果表明, DMSO的加入破坏了淀粉的有序结构, 实现了淀粉的塑化, 形成均一的非晶连续相. 同甘油及甘油/水增塑体系相比, DMSO与淀粉的羟基形成更为稳定的氢键, 能够有效抑制淀粉的重结晶. 动态力学和拉伸力学性能测试结果表明, 经过DMSO的增塑, 有效降低了淀粉的玻璃化转变温度, 改善了材料的韧性, 增塑效率要好于甘油及甘油/水复合增塑体系.     

热塑性甲壳素衍生物N,O-苄基壳聚糖的合成及表征

天然高分子的热塑化一直引起人们的极大关注．由于存在大量的分子内和分子间氢键,一般天然高分子都不能加热塑化,从而限制了其应用．纤维素和淀粉的热塑化改性已有了许多研究．典型的热塑性纤维素衍生物有乙基纤维素、醋酸纤维素和经丙基纤维素等[1,2],有些纤维素衍生物还具有热致液晶性．淀粉的某些衍生物也已有热塑性[3]．在分子结构上,甲壳素／壳聚糖比纤维素或淀粉多了乙酰氨基和氨基,更易形成氢键,分子间作用力更强．迄今,国内外已报道了大量甲壳素／壳聚糖衍生物,但均无热塑性．我们曾合成具有热塑性的氰乙基经丙基壳聚糖,但熔点与分解温度之间只有27℃E4J．热塑性甲壳素的研究不仅为甲壳素的加工利用开辟了新途径,而且也将为热致性甲壳素液晶的研究奠定基础,从而进一步丰富和深化目前以纤维素衍生物为主的热致胆舀液晶研究[5,6]．为此,本文研究了一种新的热塑性甲壳素衍生物,并从结构上讨论了其具有热塑性的原因．     

热塑性淀粉/聚乙烯醇/蒙脱土三元纳米复合材料

用熔融挤出的方法制备了甘油塑化热塑性淀粉（TPS）/聚乙烯醇（PVA）/蒙脱土（MMT）纳米复合材料,添加蒙脱土和聚乙烯醇用以提高热塑性淀粉材料的力学性能。 在相对湿度50%的条件下,复合材料的XRD衍射谱图和透射电子显微镜测试表明,MMT以剥离状态均匀分布在TPS/PVA基体中;力学测试表明,当MMT的质量分数从0％增至5％时,复合材料的力学性能明显提高。 当蒙脱土的质量分数为3%时,复合材料最大抗张强度达到13.24 MPa,杨氏模量达到61.46 MPa。 这说明蒙脱土在复合材料中可以起到物理交联点的作用,提高了复合材料的力学性能。     

甲酰胺塑化热塑性淀粉的性能研究

用甲酰胺作为塑化剂制备了热塑性淀粉 (TPS) ,扫描电镜显示甲酰胺可以使淀粉塑化 ,形成均一的连续相 ;流变性能说明在加工温度范围内 ,甲酰胺塑化淀粉 (FPTPS)的剪切应力对温度变化敏感性要小于甘油塑化淀粉 (GPTPS) ;用热重和DSC研究了热稳定性和玻璃化转变 ;FPTPS在 13%～ 2 3%的水含量时有较好的力学性能 ,水含量为 13%时 ,FPTPS有最大的断裂强度 3 9MPa ;水含量为 17%时 ,FPTPS最大的伸长率为 95 % ;与GPTPS相比 ,在RH(Relativehumidity) =0 5 0 %and 10 0 %环境下 ,FPTPS有良好的耐回生性能 ,这主要是因为甲酰胺可以和淀粉羟基形成更稳定的氢键     

Poly(lactic acid)/coplasticized thermoplastic starch blend: Effect of plasticizer migration on rheological and mechanical properties

Polylactic acid (PLA) and thermoplastic starch (TPS) are known as bio‐based and biodegradable thermoplastic polymers that can be used in different applications owing to their inherent physical and mechanical properties. In order to reduce the higher costs of PLA and tuning its physical and mechanical properties suitable for short life packaging applications, blending of PLA with the TPS, more economical biodegradable polymer, has been considered in academic and industrial researches. However, melt blending of PLA with TPS without compatibilization process caused some drawbacks such as coarsening morphology and declining mechanical properties and ductility because of thermodynamic immiscibility, which may restrict its usage in packaging applications. Subsequently, our approach in this research is compatibilization of PLA/TPS blends by utilization of primary well tuning of TPS formulation with a combination of sorbitol and glycerol plasticizers. In this work, the wide composition range of melt mixed PLA/TPS blends was prepared using a laboratory twin screw extruder. The effects of microstructure on the rheological and mechanical properties of PLA/TPS blends were studied using different methods such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, contact angle, oscillatory shear rheological measurements, and tensile and impact strength mechanical tests. The rheological and mechanical properties were interpreted according to the morphological features and considering the possibility of plasticizer migration from TPS to PLA phase during melt blending. Reduction in complex viscosity and storage modulus of PLA matrix samples indicates the improved melt processability of blends. Finally, in comparison with mechanical results reported in literature, our simple approach yielded the blends with elastic modulus and ductility comparable with those of chemically compatibilized PLA/TPS blends.     

Genome-wide identification,functional and evolutionary analysis of terpene synthases in pineapple

Terpene synthases (TPSs) are vital for the biosynthesis of active terpenoids, which have important physiological, ecological and medicinal value. Although terpenoids have been reported in pineapple (Ananas comosus), genome-wide investigations of the TPS genes responsible for pineapple terpenoid synthesis are still lacking. By integrating pineapple genome and proteome data, twenty-one putative terpene synthase genes were found in pineapple and divided into five subfamilies. Tandem duplication is the cause of TPS gene family duplication. Furthermore, functional differentiation between each TPS subfamily may have occurred for several reasons. Sixty-two key amino acid sites were identified as being type-II functionally divergence between TPS-a and TPS-c subfamily. Finally, coevolution analysis indicated that multiple amino acid residues are involved in coevolutionary processes. In addition, the enzyme activity of two TPSs were tested. This genome-wide identification, functional and evolutionary analysis of pineapple TPS genes provide a new insight into understanding the roles of TPS family and lay the basis for further characterizing the function and evolution of TPS gene family.     

A Mixed Plasticizer for the Preparation of Thermoplastic Starch

In this paper, formamide was firstly used as plasticizer to prepare thermoplastic starch (TPS), which could suppress the retrogradation of TPS by X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and show a good flexibility, but was weaker than conventional glycerol-plasticized TPS (GPTPS). When urea was introduced into plasticizer, both the retrogradation and mechanical properties were ameliorated. The tensile stress, strain and energy break of TPS plasticized by urea (wt. 20%) and formamide (wt.10%), respectively, reached 4.83 MPa, 104.6 % and 2.17 N-m (Newton-meter) after it had been stored at relative humidity (RH) 30% for one week.     

Reducing water absorption in compostable starch-based plastics

To improve the mechanical and physical properties of corn starch-based bioplastics the addition of natural polymers was investigated. Thermoplastic starch (TPS) was made of 70 g corn starch and 30 g glycerol. To this mixture 10–10 g of cellulose, hemicellulose and zein (protein) were added. Mechanical strength, water absorption and enzymatic degradation of composite materials were measured. Unfilled TPS and 10 w/w% polycaprolactone filled TPS were used as controls in the experiments. All the samples were biodegradable by enzymes. The tensile strength of unfilled and biopolymer filled TPS samples were significantly higher than that of the polycaprolactone filled one. Hemicellulose and zein composites had the best mechanical strength (10.4 and 11.5 MPa). Water uptake of each sample was measured using five different relative humidities. There were slight differences in water uptake of polycaprolactone, hemicellulose and zein filled TPS, however unfilled and cellulose filled samples absorbed more moisture than the polycaprolactone control in all the relative humidities used.     

Elevated ductility,optical, and air barrier properties of poly (butyleneadipate‐co‐terephthalate) bio‐based films via novel thermoplastic starch feature

It is important to develop high performances biodegradable polymers to eliminate the “white pollution” evoked by petroleum‐based polymer. Thermoplastic starch (TPS) with nano‐ellipse configuration was fabricated to reinforce the performances of poly (butylene adipate co‐terephthalate) (PBAT) biocomposites. Effects of tartaric acid (TA) (0.5% wt) on the structure of TPS and compatibility for PBAT were evaluated by Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), viscosity and rheological measurement, dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and scanning electron microscope (SEM), respectively. They revealed that TA reduced the molecular weight of starch and shear viscosity of TPS were beneficial for TPS dispersing in PBAT matrix with 184‐nm averaged diameter. PBAT/TPS‐TA (70:30 wt%) biocomposite films were blew with different blow‐up ratio. The morphology of films presented that nano‐TPS‐TA wrapped in the PBAT matrix and deformed from ball to capsule feature without agglomeration. Compared with those of PBAT film, the increment in elongation at break of PBAT/TPS‐TA film was 100%. The air permeability and UV‐VIS transmittance of PBAT/TPS‐TA films decreased from 6.92 × 10^?9 to 3.72 × 10^?9 cm³·cm·cm^?2 s^?1 Pa^?1 and 47.6% to 23.5%, respectively. This study proposed a facile approach to fabricate low‐cost PBAT films with significant improved mechanical, optical, and air barrier properties for commercial application. Mechanism for nanoparticles of TPS‐TA motivated the elevated performances was proposed, synchronously.     

A novel method for quantitative determination of tea polysaccharide by resonance light scattering

A new method for the determination of tea polysaccharide (TPS) in green tea (Camellia sinensis) leaves has been developed. The method was based on the enhancement of resonance light scattering (RLS) of TPS in the presence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC)-NaOH system. Under the optimum conditions, the RLS intensity of CPC was greatly enhanced by adding TPS. The maximum peak of the enhanced RLS spectra was located at 484.02 nm. The enhanced RLS intensity was proportional to the concentration of TPS in the range of 2.0-20 μg/ml. It showed that the new method and phenol-sulfuric acid method give some equivalent results by measuring the standard compounds. The recoveries of the two methods were 96.39-103.7% (novel method) and 100.15-103.65% (phenol-sulfuric acid method), respectively. However, it showed that the two methods were different to some extent. The new method offered a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.047 μg/ml, whereas the phenol-sulfuric acid method gives a LOD of 1.54 μg/ml. Interfered experiment demonstrated that the new method had highly selectivity, and was more suitable for the determination of TPS than phenol-sulfuric method. Stability test showed that new method had good stability. Moreover, the proposed method owns the advantages of easy operation, rapidity and practicability, which suggested that the proposed method could be satisfactorily applied to the determination of TPS in green tea.