Effect of super critical carbon dioxide and alkali treatment on oxygen barrier properties of thermoplastic starch/poly(vinyl alcohol) films
Author:
Chen Wei-xing1, Xu Hong-juan1, Mei Han-fang1, Ma Ning1, Yeh Jen-taut1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering , Hubei University , Wuhan , China
Abstract
Abstract
Sustainable oxygen barrier thermoplastic starch (TPS)/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) blown films were successfully prepared by blending proper PVA loads during NaOH-treating and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) assisted processing. The NaOH-treated TPS or scCO2TPS films showed smaller free-volume-cavity characteristics (FVCC) and oxygen transmission rate (OTR) than those of TPS (or scCO2TPS) prepared without proper alkali-treatment. Smaller OTR and FVCC values were detected for NaOH-treated scCO2TPS films than those of NaOH-treated TPS films prepared without scCO2-assistance. All OTR and FVCC values detected for proper alkali-treated scCO2TPS
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films diminished distinctly to a smallest value, when their PVA loads came near a solubility limit value of 27.5 wt%. An essential result is that the OTR of the optimal NaOH-treated scCO2TPS
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film is merely 3.1 cm3/m2 day atm, which meets the requirement of high oxygen barrier plastics. Dynamic molecular relaxations and WAXD patterns detected for proper NaOH-treated scCO2TPS
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films disclosed that PVA was compatible with TPS, as PVA loads were ≤ the solubility limit value. The distinctly reduced OTR and FVCC detected for optimal NaOH-treated scCO2TPS
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films are partially attributed to the reinforced molecular interactions between hydroxyl groups of TPS and PVA, as they were blended with proper PVA loads during their alkali-treating and scCO2-aid processing.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,General Chemical Engineering
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