Extrusion of Thermoplastic Starch: Effect of “Green” and Common Polyethylene on the Hydrophobicity Characteristics
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50669#.VEiRF1fHRK0 Author(s) Muhammad Pervaiz 1,2* , Philip Oakley 1,3 , Mohini Sain 1,4,5 Affiliation(s) 1 Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada . 2 GreenCore Composites Inc., Sarnia, Canada . 3 The Delphi Group, Ottawa, Canada . 4 Centre of Advanced Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA . 5 Mechanical Engineering Department, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden . ABSTRACT Novel plastics that are biodegradable, environmentally benign, and made from renewable natural resources are currently being researched as alternatives to tradi...