Effect of agar on the microstructure and performance of potato starch film

Biodegradable polymer films from seaweed polysaccharides: A review on cellulose as a reinforcement material

“…With the incorporation of other polysaccharide components, such as starch and arabinoxylan, into degradable agar, the mechanical properties of the agar film degraded [3]. Alternatively, with the addition of agar to a starch film, the thermal, mechanical and water vapour barrier properties of this biocomposite film significantly improved [70,71]. This phenomenon shows that agar is able to provide a suitable cohesive matrix, which contributes to the enhancement of other polysaccharide-based film properties.…”

Improvement of Corrosion Resistance of Aluminium Alloy by Natural Products

“…Amylopectin differs from amylase in that branching occurs, with an alpha-1, 6 linkages every 24-30 glucose monomer units. Amylopectin has phosphate groups attached to some hydroxyl group (Wu et al, 2009).…”

Effect of Plasticizer Type and Concentration on Tensile, Thermal and Barrier Properties of Biodegradable Films Based on Sugar Palm (Arenga pinnata) Starch

“…Thus, starch has attracted a great deal of interest as a potential alternative to conventional plastics for packaging applications. Several studies have investigated the development and characterization of starch based films from corn [4,[6][7][8], potato [9][10][11][12][13], cassava [14][15][16][17][18][19][20], banana [21], yam [22,23], pea [1], sago [24][25][26], rice [27][28][29][30], maize [31][32][33][34], Kudzu [35] and agar [36][37][38][39]. According to Sahari et al [40] sugar palm starch is also a potential biopolymer material for making biodegradable films.…”