Modification of Starch – From Structure, through Functionalization to Special Applications
A special issue of Chemistry (ISSN 2624-8549). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry of Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 4062
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical and biochemical modifications of polysaccharides; starch; dietary fiber; resistant starch resistant dextrins; prebiotics
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Interests: starch-rich byproducts; starch-based materials; hydrophobization; elasticity; plasticity; active packaging; formative manufacturing; additive manufacturing
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Dear Colleagues,
Worldwide, industries are striving to reduce the pollutions associated with raw material processing and new material production. More and more attention is paid to the use of clean, environmentally friendly technologies. There is an ongoing search for cheap, natural, and biodegradable materials. One of them is starch – biodegradable and renewable polysaccharide. Food, pulp and paper, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, biomedical, textile adhesive, and packaging industries mainly need modified starches with improved processing properties compared to natural starch. Analysis of abstract and citation databases and programs of professional scientific conferences shows that much more attention is being paid to the modification of other polysaccharides, such as cellulose, hemicellulose, chitin, and chitosan. Research on modification of starch for food and non-food purposes is very dispersed, and less well described. Therefore, there is a need for a Special Issue devoted to various methods of starch modification and the relationship between the structure of modified starches and their physicochemical, functional, processing, and environmental properties. This Special Issue will contain contributions discussing all the aspects that are broadly related to the keywords. Review articles by experts in the field are also welcome.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Molecules.
Prof. Dr. Janusz Kapusniak
Dr. Idalina Gonçalves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chemical modification
- Physical modification
- Enzymatic modification
- Starch films
- Starch-based biocomposites
- Packaging materials
- Porous starch
- Modified nano-starch
- Modified starch encapsulation
- Starch foam
- Starch-based aerogels
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