Yokiushirdhilgilmara Estrada-Girón, Víctor Vladimir Amílcar Fernández-Escamilla, Angelina Martín-Del-Campo, Rubén González-Nuñez, Gonzalo Canché-Escamilla, Jorge Uribe-Calderón, Nancy Tepale, Jacobo Aguilar, Francisco Javier Moscoso-Sánchez
Biocomposites were fabricated utilizing polylactic acid (PLA) combined with native starch sourced from mountain's yam ( Dioscorea remotiflora Knuth), an underexplored tuber variety. Different starch compositions (7.5, 15.0, 22.5, and 30.0 wt.%) were blended with PLA in a batch mixer at 160 °C to produce PLA/starch biocomposites. The biocomposites were characterized by analyzing their morphology, particle size distribution, thermal, X-ray diffraction (XDR), mechanical, and dynamic mechanical (DMA) properties, water absorption behavior, and color...
March 25, 2024: Polymers