“…Amylose forms inclusion complexes with various guest molecules, such as, iodine, fatty acids, alcohols, polymers, aromatic compounds, carbon nanotubes, and iron oxide nanoparticles, because it can incorporate guest molecules within the cavities formed by its helical amylose chain or spontaneously co-aggregate with other entities via van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonding to produce particulate forms. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Amylose can be obtained simply from starch using physical or biological processes, but the amylose so obtained is heterogeneous in terms of its molecular weight and its degree of contamination by amylopectin. [15][16][17][18] On the other hand, several enzymes, such as, starch (glycogen) synthase, D-enzyme, glucan phosphorylase, and amylosucrase, have been used to produce linear amylose of defined molecular weight.…”